THE BRITISH EMPIRE
DEAN IXGITS ST.ATK.AI KNT. (United Press Association. —lsy Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright.] LONDON. April 16. “Our financial reserves are so completely gone that wo could nof go to war, even if slapped in the Inc l ’. Our naval supremacy has vanished, and our Empire has fallen to piece*. There i s no confidence in enterprise. Instead there is a vast and ever-increasing army of parasites, paid by the State not |,o work.” Thus spoke Dean luge
jn the course' of one ol his gloomiest speeches af, a luncheon given by the individualist Movement, lie contii'ir'd : “The world is making up its miml that democracy is unsafe. and is going back to government by a few or by one. Britain ami France' have' returned democratic governments hut th>’ professional politicians have lost woefully m prestiges The people mv little interested in polities, and lew would vote at all if it were- not for the press.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1931, Page 6
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155THE BRITISH EMPIRE Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1931, Page 6
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