THE BEST HOPES.
" The best hopes of all of us lie in peace — and time. It has been said that the full impetus of a revolution seldom lasts more than a quarter of a century. Sooner or later the Italians, a highly intelligent and active-minded people, are likely (if they have peace) to find a new freedom through the growth of different sohools of thonght within the Fascist Party, though they may never revive the rather artificial Parliamentarism whioh they borrowed from Britain and France without much helieving in it. The same sort of thing may happen in Germany. Russian impqrialism will always he dangerous to neighbouring States whatever its disguise. " But while it would he more than rash to put much faith in the development of 'democracy' under the Soviets, there are plenty of signs that Russia is, in fact, developing habits and ideas that are essentially 'bourgeois.' Given time her Bolshevism may turn into something not so very different from the industrial system of other nations, and her miliions of peasants will never he revolutionary — or perhaps irreligious — for long. The best policy of the free and civilised nations is, in fact, simply to work for time."— Glasgow Herald.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 65, 3 April 1937, Page 4
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