Sir,-In his defence of Senator McCarthy, your -Lower Hutt correspondent represented him as a moral crusader against an evil which is unique. In this he is wrong. That which is unique and which provides the motive for McCarthyism is the fear of the consequences of that evil being applied to ourselves. The defence of political actions which depart from what is generally considered to be lawful usually rests on their recognition as preventive medicines, distasteful perhaps but sanitary. The restriction of personal freedom in order to safeguard freedom, however, is the most pernicious of medicines known to the body politic. : The economic creed of Communism has one important similarity to our own; it rests entirely on finance. Not until this relationship is altered can liberalism become effective in politics.
NORMAN
WALWYN
(Te Kuiti).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 917, 8 March 1957, Page 11
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