PARLIAMENT & PEOPLE
“We are here to serve the public, which is really rather bored with all our political conventions, but is interested in the presentation of any mechanism or method that may seem to give them what they want,” said Mr Harold Macmillan, M.P., speaking in the House of Commons. “The people are bored with the old terms of Private Enterprise and Socialism, Protection, and Free Trade, but they are interested in any movement that will give them what they believe can, by energy and enterprise and effort, and intellectual and mental power, be done with the vast resources, technical and scientific* that we have at our command. And sooner or later either this democracy will die, either it will pass away and seek, vainly enough, perhaps, its instrument in some other method of government hostile to all our notions, and to most of us horrible to contemplate; or, sooner or later, we shall be able to lead Britain steadily, not by revolutionary but still by progressive and ambitious means, into the realisation of the new society which is open there for us to take if we have the courage to seize the opportunities that are ready for us today.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1938, Page 9
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