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“A DEMOCRAT”
No Fascism or Rule by Commission
PREMIER’S DECLARATION
(FROM OUR SPECIAL REPORTER.)
WELLINGTON, Friday
Mr. Stevens declared that he was not an extremist. “I claim to be a democrat,” he said. “I would like to see our democratic institutions preserved. There are some who want to wreck our democratic institutions. On the one hand, there are those who want to socialise them by political domination by the Trades Hall bosses. There are a few people who talk about Fascism, and who want to govern this country by a commission.”
A voice: Such as Eric Campbell.
The Premier: I do not know Eric Campbell, but if he or anybody else talks about ruling this country by Fascism or commission I will deal with him. (Cheers.)
The Sydney Morning Herald, 1933
It was dark by the time Charl
