FIFTH FREEDOM
BASIS OF TRUE DEMOCRACY. Viscount Simon, the Lord Chancellor. referred to President Roosevelt’s four freedom's of true democracy—freedom of speech, from want, from insecurity, and from fear, in opening the War Weapons Week at Kingston-on-Thames. He said: Is there not also a fifth freedom, without which no country can truly claim to enjoy liberty?—the freedom of every citizen, however uninfluential, however unpopular. however wrong-headed, to appeal to the law and the courts to protect him from injury or insult, even although the wrong is committeed by Ihe misuse of official power. Whoever heard of anybody in a German concentration camp applying for a writ of habeas corpus? Whoever heard of anyone in Germany today taking proceedings against the secret police, or suing) the Gestapo for damages? No GermanJ court would dare 1o interfere with the: edicts of the bullies in power. This) fifth liberty is just as essential for prc-i serving the life of a free democracy as! are the others, and all wo shall say to Hitler on this subject is (hat. we in-1 tend to preserve the lot.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1941, Page 6
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