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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1938, Page 2

Dr J. B. Condliffe, the New Zealand economist now at London University, spoke particularly on leadership in one of this year’s Halley Stewart lectures. “In the long run,” he said, “power and leadership in the economic as in any other field of human endeavour depend less upon circumstances than upon men, and less upon numbers than upon quality. The essential problem confronting Britain or any other country in its effort to raise and make more secure the standard of life of its people is the development and training of men and women capable of grappling with changing circumstances. In the difficult period through which we are passing it is the country which most successfully enlists capacity wherever it is found which stands the best chance, of survival. Leadership is more necessary than ever, but it must be leadership based upon and drawn from an educated and stable democracy.”