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Tun Orn.omc run Liiikkausm. “In some circles it has become the fashion to say that these are evil days for liberals; and to an extent current conditions on tbe Continent ol Europe justify this view. 'I lie heightened | assions of the war and post-war period have tended to drive men into the Conservative or the Radical camp. All human experience, however, confirms tin* view that this development is a temporary one. and abnormal in so far as war itself on the huge modern scale is abnormal. .Liberalism, mil as a party, but as a. principle, the principle of seeking to secure the greatest possible amount of real Imp) im-ss for tile greatest possible number of people over the longest possible period of time, the liberalism whii h seeks to introduce into public affairs the moral and intellectual standards w hich an honourable. intelligent man displays in his private life—such liberalism cannot ho destroyed for all time merely because the balance of power in a number of countries has lor the moment tipped violently to the left or right, and placed final political authority in the hands of a Trotskv or Mussolini. “The New Republic’’ (New York, U.S.A.)
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1924, Page 2
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