DEMOCRACY AND LEADERSHIP
" The great majority of men do waht to be led, and are capable of a wonderful ldyalty to any leader whom they can regpect and trust," says Mr Ramsay Muir. " And they can redognise and respdct sincerity, courage, ability and knowledge. But these are Uofc arguments for dictatorship, whereby a ' leadcr * is imposed by force Upon pUssive subjedts. They are arguments for democfacy, for leaving men frde to dhoose theif own leaders. But they are not arguments for the kind of demodratic ehoice which alone is ofEered to us to-day, wherein the elector is told that he must choose bdtwedn two men, one of whom rnay he a wealthy niiicOliipoop, aild the other a dishonest careerist, and that if he does nqt chOose the Winiler, his vote wUI
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 137, 26 June 1937, Page 4
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