FREE ELECTIONS
BASIS OF DEMOCRACY DICTATORSHIPS DENOUNCED PHILADELPHIA. (Received Sept. 22, at 7p.m.) - ; President Roosevelt, in a speech, said: "I regret to say that.even today there are .demands for the return of a Government of those few who, because of their business ability or economic omniscience are supposed to be iust a touch above the average of our citizens. A great danger is that once a Government falls into the hands of a few of the elite curtailment or even abolition of free elections might be adopted as a means of keeping them in power. Free elections mean the enduring safety of bur form of government. No dictator. in history ever dared to run the gauntlet of a really free election." . , The President said that the Germans despaired of their democracy and thev listened to the new cult of Nazism in which the minority were offered "bread, shelter, -and better, government bv the rule of a handful of people who had special aptitude for governing.. but making no men Lion of the abolition of free elections. Many people in large businesses were, dissatisfied -with; the democratic .system :. and 'Stormed colitical and economic this group. Ypu.; ailti -I'l&'aiy 'the subsequent history' of. Germany—-(he right of free elections was suddenly wiped out by the new regime." ,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24410, 23 September 1940, Page 6
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