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Sir,— I am very pleased that our Prime Minister has such a staunch supporter for the proposed newspaper legislation. This proposed restrictive law is causing bitter criticism everywhere. Even trade unions are protesting, so I think Mr Turner is backing the wrong horse. Perhaps Mr Turner believes Mr Savage's oft-reiterated statement that "no-one has anything to fear." The flame of my faith in Labour has died to a feeble glimmer, and perhaps I am afraid, so I am not risking any victimisation and will therefore continue my anonymity. "Nothing to fear"; it bounds grand but is now meaningless. We have: Disregard of advice, intolerance, dictatorship, commandeering of business and trade. We 3ee handsome salaries and double-headed jobs; new business licensed and old taken away, causing further unemployment. We have the housing affair, the Picot affair, the "Uncle Scrim" affair; and ,yet all these things are o.k.'d by a ,man who says "we have nothing to fear." — Yours, etc.,
Hastings, Dec. 1, 1937.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 58, 1 December 1937, Page 6
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