CRITICISM UNQUENCHABLE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 45, 16 November 1937, Page 4

CRITICISM UNQUENCHABLE

"No dictatorship has ever contrived to kill criticism and oppdsition outright; neither in Russia after twenty years, nor in Italy after fifteen; neither in the ancient Rome of Sulla, Nero, Diooletian, nor in Nazi Germany. Education means indopendence and criticism," says a writer in The Economist. "Germany plungod into dictatorship four and a half years ago with the most highly-educated middle-class of all the Great Powers and the best-educated working class. During the last few months discontent with, and criticism of, the Nazi Party State and regime has grown very much in both these classes; aJ&ong the well-to-do traders, landlords, industrialists, functiQnaries, bankers and professional men, and among their clerkg, labourepe, oraftsanen, assistants and artisans, Despite the party's endeavonr to mitigate the steady reduction in real wages by sharpening the attoak on industrial profits and the propertied class^the workers have shown that they want social reform, not foreign glory ; better conditions at homa and in the factory, not conscription ending in death on un-: known hattlefields; socialisation of the chief consumptjpn. goods. induBtriei Mrgfiifk-aot Stata cauixaLa£ thtonf *