DEMOCRACY.
"The position of democracy is obviously vastly stronger in Great Britain, France and the United States . . . America and Great Britain .have no precedent for Army meddling in politics (a frequent cause of the downfall of democratic experiments), and France has developed a tradition of orderly republican government stretching back for sixty-five years. It is a matter of tremendous importance whether people can Bpeak and write and vote freely, whether they can go to bed without fear of being dragged off to questioning, torture, exile, or execution by some irresponsible secret police; whether they can talk above a whisper about public affairs when there are unknown listeners. With the record of communism and fascism written large for all tq read, the absolute and unconditional value of human liberty is no longer a theoretical or debatable position. Patrick Henry's flaming phrase, liberty or death, is a sober statement of the alternative that confronts civilisation in the twentieth cenfcury." — Mr H. Chamberlin — in "A False Utopia."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 21, 18 October 1937, Page 4
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164DEMOCRACY. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 21, 18 October 1937, Page 4
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