FORTRESS OF FREEDOM
GREAT BRITAIN’S TRADITION. “The British tradition of freedom is of the very stuff of our lives. It is, as Edmund Burke said, “the commodity of choice of which we have the monopoly,’ ” said Professor Harold Laski in a recent address. “We have grown into the habit which insists that the people of this country are to be trusted. We believe in freedom of discussion. We know that rules made out of the clash of opinions are better than rules which derive from an' imposed coercion. We believe that a unity which grows from the assent of free men is better, and more enduring, than a unity enforced by the Gestapo and the concentration camp. That is why, as the record shows, our civil liberties remain, in spite of our national danger, a secure fortress. That is why they will emerge from these trials of war unscathed and even enhanced by the tests they , will have endured.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1941, Page 6
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