DEMOCRACY'S PART
h-^Preae Agaooiation.)
Maintaining Peace in The World
(By Telegrap
WHANGAREI, This Day. "Since 1914 we were never closer to a world war than last ThursdayB'' the actingrPrime Minister, the Hon. x-4. Fraser at a reception at Whangarei. He attributed the present ciisis to the risa pf dictatorships and militarism, and said that demoerapy wap in danger of being scrapped as in Germany, Italy and other countries, nnlesg adjusted itself to the present 1 ever-changing complexities, "New Zealand must play her part in contributing to the maintqnancq and safegparding of the British Cqmmonwealth, the greatest fqrce in upholding democra.c , • said the Minister> whq emphasisL^ the necessity of "giying children free aCPess to fountains , pf knowledge so that they could judge facts and think for themselves. Intelligeut well-informed people were the only real safeguard for democracy. In the Doiminion, the most demoeratic country in the world, an attemgt was being made to apply demoeratic ideals in relation to econoinic production.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 139, 29 June 1937, Page 4
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