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L.X : +t \ 4 "A M ty ome 24 ) o) -- arv ;'}'V' 5 _ e & 5. ® w + ~*. CR tA ts s "% 'v E ';«.M\w T m 1 ys N# f | apply for t \recovery of any penal-- 4 * ¥«# | ties imposed by the act. » ; Colonel Drew impressed on the House that the Statute of Limita-- f tions, long established by law, was | - viial to the principles of liberty. f "You are using over and over again x just such arguments as Adolf Hit-- ler used," he told the Premier and the Attorney--General. .: "You can't break down establish-- ed principles," he argued. "It is ex-- | tremely dangerous to attempt to do s dishonest things by legal methods." The committee then passed on to Section 25, which ruled that the "fair market value of any security," not listed on any stock exchange, € may be determined by the Treasurer and that value "shall not be subject to review by any court, notwith-- standing anything contained in this or any other Act." Consideration of the section again raised to a new peak the long--sus-- tained argument of the Opposition that "no act should do away with C access to the courts." Sees Freedom Destroyed. The Treasurer, claimed Colonel Drew, could fix in any way which seemed wise to him the fair values. "I know this section can open the door to legalized blackmail as no other section could," he charged. s "I say," he said, "you are open-- ing the door wide for abuses by this demand for money which you say is the basis for the change in the act. No law introduced under communism and nazism is so capable * of destroying the freedom of the individual as this law. 'This sec-- tion scuttles every principle estab. lished by Magna Carta." The Premier reminded Colonel Drew that the law which gave the Treasury powers to investigate was a Conservative law. He said he wanted to take sharp issue with the _ repeated claims that the amend-- « ments barred access to the courts. He reiterated also his claims that the proper persons to evaluate iesute assets were the trained offi-- cials of the Treasury Department. '