“WHY FRANCE FELL”
FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP. In 1914 there was no enemy propaganda; in 1939 it had been at work for five or six years with diabolical adroitness, writes M. Andre Maurois in his book. “Why France Fell.” New democracies arc a form of government in which public opinion is all-powerful and in which nothing can be done without its support. Examine the facts in France, in England and in the United States; you will find that public opinion in these three countries has been mistaken, or has been misled, with surprising consistency. It has not realised the danger until much 100 late. Their leaders could and should have directed public opinion. Unfortunately political leaders have grown accustomed to consulting opinion rather than guiding it. You sec them leaning on public opinion, sounding it out and trying to find some way in which they can, at. once, please it and convince it respectfully that it is better for a country to live than to die.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1941, Page 6
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165“WHY FRANCE FELL” Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1941, Page 6
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