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speech, and of information would inevitably be destroyed;
 
that men and women would become no better than slaves,
 
and that for that reason, deeply opposed as they were to
 
war, stud hard as they had fought to avert it, they were
 
supporting a Government which they would necessarily oppose
 
on all other issues.
 
     As the party broke up Sir John Anderson, the Minister
 
for Civilian Defense, who had not spoken all evening, took
 
me by the arm, aud said, "Please do not for one instant
 
believe that most of us agree with the opinions you have
 
heard expressed tonight. I can assure you we do not."