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SUBVERSIVE GROUPS. CONTROL IN BRITAIN. APPROVAL BY PRESS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copy rigli t.) (British Official Wireless. ) Received April 2T, 9.52 a.m. RUGBY, April 20. Tiie British Press expresses satisfaction with the Home Secretary's statement in tlie House of Commons on the activities of small groups in Britain which might impede the national war effort. The commonsonse attitude of consideration of whether some strengthening of the regulations is desirable without rushing into panic measures to suppress such activities is warmly approved.
The News-Chronicle says that in wartime the amount of lilx?rty allowed must depend primarily on considerations of national safety. The ease against proscribing British Fascists and Communists rests chiefly on their comparative harmlessness while in the open, and their potential danger if driven underground. To leave them at liberty hut carefully watched is to demonstrate to ourselves and the world that our democracy is strong enough to retain freedom under the strain of war.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 126, 27 April 1940, Page 9
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159LIBERTY RETAINED Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 126, 27 April 1940, Page 9
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