We Have True Democracy— Or Have We?
If the United Nations Organisa- ' tion could get World agreement on the true definition of democraoy it : would be a very goci thine. coid 6 Hon. T. Bloodworth, when replying to a question pul to him at a inee:ing of the United Nations Asso- ' ciation in Levin last night. To correctly define democracy ' would be a difficult task, as every 1 country had its own irif5"- on the subject. New Zealand's idea of democracy, for instance, was different to that of America's and then again Russia claimed to have the true democracy. A major difffculty in obtaining a world agreement on the matter would be tne overcoming of illiteracy, as half the countries in the world were still illiterate. Literacy was one of tne things which Unesco was trying to correct.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 June 1949, Page 4
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