THE GOVER 1 NMENT AND ^ HE PRESS Attoriiey-Geiieral's Attack House of Lords MONCKTON REPORT BEING RE-EXAMINED ..
... FREEDOM ABUSED * Sir Hartley Shawcross , the . Attorney-General , speaking at ' the Battersea byelection last night , declared : I can think of nothing which in the long ^ ri in would be more dangerous to democratic government- in tiiis country than tha . t the Press should-be gagged , and , that the ordinary electors should not be able to go to the newspapers and from them to form a ...