WHEN BELTS 'ARE TIGHTENED.
" There is turmoil in a democracy when the people are hyngry, because the people are free to cry put. In the dragoqned natiqns the people cannot cry out. They must nofc only tighten tbeir belts but must do it in silence. At the deptb of the depression we oould not humanly blame frightened people in the free countries if they looked abroad and thought that thiugs were better under Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin. Well, there is not much rpom for illusion to-day conceruing, how well people are faring under Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin. They are not doing things better over there, Thus the old democratio home, after a second glance, begins to look a lot better than we thought, by comparison with some other places one might mention, and after a hearty breakfast."— Mr Simeon Strixnsky, in the yfrt twtii
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 67, 6 April 1937, Page 4
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142WHEN BELTS 'ARE TIGHTENED. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 67, 6 April 1937, Page 4
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