THE SUCCESS OF DEMOCRACY.
" The fact is that democracy has nowhere failed," said Lord Allen of Hurtwood, in a speech reported in the ^Oxford Times, "save in a few eountries where there have heen special ad hoc reasons, sueh as defeat or humiliation in war or a complete breakdown in the ^social fabric. Elsewhere, especially in Sweden and Britain, dernocracy is proving by far the most successful instrument of government, and it is our business not to stir up apprebension about its capacity, but to proclaim its immense success. Let us point out to the dictators that the deuiocratic eountries have gathered around them great commomvealths of free nations, esfcablished the highest standard of living, rapidly extended social services, and accumulated ivealth. This has been done without tbe assistance of cencentratiou carnps or revolutionary trials and confessionals. The deinocratic eountries of to-day are in a far stronger position than the dictatorships to- spqed up new efforts to create new social order."- -
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 178, 14 August 1937, Page 4
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161THE SUCCESS OF DEMOCRACY. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 178, 14 August 1937, Page 4
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