THE WAY OF DICTATORSHIPS
" T£e root o£ weakness of all authoritarian govemments — German, Russian, Italian and Portuguese— is that they provide no safety valve for disoontent, no peaceful alternative to themselves," says the London Star. "They treat men as machiUes and, sooner or later, humanity is bound to revolt against a conception that is alien to its deepest instincts. The Athenians grejv tired of hearing Aristides oalled 'The Just.' The Portuguese may grow tired of hearing Salazar called 'The Good.' But what can they do about it, except resort to violence? Under a dictatorship the only reply to force is force. Where one m®-n has achieved power by lawless means the temptation to others to attempt it becomes irresistible. We take leave to prophesy that the coming years will show ,that the nations who have replaced the demodracy by dictatorship have backed the wrong horse. The bullet is the poorest substitute for the ballot. Government by force in the place of government by consent is the lazy man's choice, the short cut to Utopia that ends in perdition."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 3, 19 January 1937, Page 6
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