AGAINST COMMUNISM
STRONG MEASURES DEFENDED ADDRESS BY THE PREMIER OF QUEBEC. FAILURE OF DOMINION GOVERNMENT. Bv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. MONTREAL. January 9. Defending the Quebec anti-Commun-ist law under which premises used for the spread of Communist literature may be sealed for a year, the Premier, Mr Maurice Duplessis, told the Canadian Club that the danger now past was so real that the province was threatened with revolution. Replying to the criticism that the padlock law was un-British, he asked: “What about our oaths of loyalty to the King? No loyal British subject and no loyal Canadian can honestly be a Communist.”
In reply to the charge that the padlock law attacks free speech, he declared that there was a marked difference between free speech and abuse of the right. Nobody was permitted to advocate murder. It was our duty as Christians and loyal British subjects to fight Communism. “It was the duty of the Dominion Government to fight Communism,” said Mr Duplessis, “When the Dominion failed, Quebec was justified in taking a bold stand. Never will Communism gain a foothold in Quebec.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1939, Page 2
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182AGAINST COMMUNISM Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1939, Page 2
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