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Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1933, Page 4

In an editorial article upon the Soeia-' list programme in Britain, as revealed in M\e.iC pamphlets, the Times .says:— It is a littie disquieting to observe that ouy prospective dictators, though not alarmed by the admitted difficulties of their tank, will bring very little originality to iu. Every one of their ideas flown to the smallest detail is borrowed and (unless it be assumed that they have been inspired by Sir Oswald Mosley) borrowed from abroad. Most of them hail from Russia, including the idea of a politically ruthless party caucus, possessing a monopoly of place, power and rights; but the tactics favoured appear to be copied from Herr Hitler. This is the more surprising because Mr Rrailsford has written a companion pamphlet entitled “The Nazi Terror,” commenting in very severe terms upon such matters (apart from personal violence) to the dragooning of the press, the rnanipula. tion of constitutional forms and the political and economic intimidation of opponents. But wliep the same measures are token in Russia, the Socialist intellectuals call them a great and interesting experiment, and incorporate many of them '.Though not of course, the ur,e of physical violence) in their policy for tins country. “We cannot,” says Mr Cole, “put limits to the degree of dictatorial power which, under stress of the emergency, our Socialist Government may have to assume.” What is Satanic in Germany would be “rallying the nation to the service of the working cla- c e” if practised in this country. This differentiation of the verdict upon political systems according to the comolexion of the party in power is the last infirmity of distorted minds; and the oicture of Great Britain under the new Socialist dispensation would fully merit t .e description which Mr Bi J ail eford gives to Germany—“a great country rattling hack to barbarism.”