CONSTITUTIONAL RULE
VALUE OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT SIR T. INSKIP'S COMPARISON WITH DICTATORSHIP. FORCE OF PUBLIC OPINION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 12. The Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, Sir Thomas Inskip, in a speech today, said that Parliament today was as much as at any time in its history the focus of political thought in England. Comparing Parliamentary institutions with dictatorships, he said that it might be that Parliaments were more sensitive and reflected more accurately public opinion, but not often could a dictator indefinitely survive the turning of public opinion against his views or policy. The British people could congratulate themselves upon the fact that they had in the Houses of Parliament a constitutional institution upon which they could safely depend to reflect their opinions, wishes and policy. The British people might also take comfort in the thought that, whatever they might find to dislike in the system of dictatorships on other countries, they, too, were ultimately responsible to public opinion.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1938, Page 7
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164CONSTITUTIONAL RULE Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1938, Page 7
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