OUR OWN FREEDOM
PRIMATE SOUNDS WARNING NOTE. WATCH NEEDED AGAINST TOTALITARIANISM. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October 24. Stating that he did not wish to discuss politics, but he felt that he should say what was concerning him, the Primate of New Zealand, the Most Rev. A. W. Averill, told members of the Auckland Council of Christian Congregations that they should be on the watch against State totalitarianism. “We have to be on the watch against any State claims to totalitarian powers, that is powers over our souls, as well as our bodies,” he said. “I do not wish to speak about any particular Government, but we may have to fight some sort of dictatorship which may claim the right to say what the Churches will or will not teach. “It is no use going to fight for the freedom of the Poles,” he added, “if we are going to lose our own freedom. We have got to take a militant aspect sometimes.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1939, Page 4
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162OUR OWN FREEDOM Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1939, Page 4
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