Sir,-I feel that I must take you to task for your remarks on Riptide in the Pacific. You say that the writers are "generally more sympathetic to the new democracy of Eastern Europe than to the democracy that has permitted publication." This is a direct affront to the liberal tradition which The Listener and most New Zealanders wish to uphold. Do we not regard unfettered freedom of speech and writing as one of the essential features of that tradition? Do we wish to submit to censorship? The implications of these remarks, are, I fear, ‘undemocratic and to be condemned.
J. H.
HANHAM
(New Lynn).
(We must suppose that our correspondent read us standing on his head or that his copy by some accident was printed upside down.-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 487, 22 October 1948, Page 5
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