TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The Success of Democracy. The 'fact is that democracy hns nowhere failed,” snid Lord Allen of Hurtwood, in a speech reported in the Oxford Times, “save in a few countries where there have been special ad hoc reasons, such as defeat or humiliation in war or a complete breakdown in the Social fabric. Elsewhere, especially in Sweden and Britain, democracy is proving by far the most successful instrument of government, and it is our business not to stir up apprehension about its capacity, but to proclaim its immense success. Let us point out to the dictators that the democratic countries have gathered around them great commonwealths of free nations, established the highest standard of living, rapidly extended social services, and accumulated wealth. This lias been done without the assistance of concentration camps or revolutionary trials and confessionals. The democratic countries of to-dav are in a far stronger position than the dictatorships to speed up new efforts to create new social order,”
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20261, 2 August 1937, Page 6
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165TOPICS OF THE DAY. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20261, 2 August 1937, Page 6
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