CROWN AND COMMONWEALTH
Sir,-Critics, being human, are likely enough to be wrong, but without criticism there will be no sound public life. All forms of government are human institutions and all those that form governments are, equally with their critics, human beings. All are fallible and are fair subjects for discussion. To say that while we criticise all other forms of government we ought always to be silent regarding our own would be worse than childish. To say that only adulation ought to be tolerated from the governed would be equally fatuous. We are not living under Oriental despotism,. though much that has lately been written about the Crown, and criticism of the Crown, might seem to imply that we are so living. The form of government that won’t stand criticism had better be altered. We should always tolerate the critic, however we may differ from him.
J.
JOHNSTONE
(Manurewa).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 953, 15 November 1957, Page 11
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