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RUSSIA STANDS FOR LIBERTY
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the censorship. The Russian extremists have not yet learnt the lesson of British political history, that self-government is impossible without self-control and self-restraint. If the Russian Press used but a fraction of the self-restraint which in Britain is imposed either by public opinion or by the libel law, Russian censorship would have long ceased to exist.