CHALLENGE DECLINED
REHABILITATION MINISTER DEBATE ON COMMUNISM PA. WELLINGTON, Nov. 30. The Minister of Rehabilitation, Mr Skinner, has declined the challenge of Mr A. Galbraith, of the New Zealand Communist Party, to a public debate in Westport and Greymouth. The Minister states that he is declining the challenge, which was not unexpected, not because of any apprehension about the outcome, but because there were many more effective ways of aiding Britain to which he wished to apply himself. The Minister added that he made no slighting remarks about the Indian and Chinese students who were members of the Communist Party in the United Kingdom, and anyone knowing him a little better than Mr Galbraith appeared to do would not accuse him of racial bias. The difference between democratic Socialists and Communists was that the Socialists of the Labour Party believed in achieving their objectives through political education and a free secret vote of the people, while the Communists .would tolerate no opposition, constitutional or otherwise. Mr Skinner concluded that there was not, and could not be, any affinity between Labour and Communism. They simply could not mix.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26632, 1 December 1947, Page 6
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187CHALLENGE DECLINED Otago Daily Times, Issue 26632, 1 December 1947, Page 6
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