Canada’s Government is wrestling earnestly with the problem of curbing distribution of hate materials without infringing upon traditional guarantees of freedom of speech, Paul Martin, the Dominion’s Minister for External Affairs, told a Jewish audience here.
Mr. Martin, addressing a meeting of the Beth Sholom Synagogue Brotherhood here, condemned roundly the recent outbreak of hate literature distribution throughout the country, most of it anti-Semitic and anti-Negro. “We must oppose these despicable efforts by a few individuals, ” he said, “to promote division at a time when there is so much need for unity. ” The real problem, he declared, is finding a formula “that would meet the evil of hate literature without, at the same time, interfering with freedom of speech.”
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