SWAYING THE PEOPLE
INFLUENCE ORATORS WIELD The importance of oratory in the world today formed the substance of an address given by Air R. Braithwaite, of Hamilton, at the weekly luncheon of the Hamilton Rotary Club yesterday. As examples of oratory, ancient and modern, at its best, the speaker quoted extracts from orations by Abraham Lincoln, Joseph Cowen on freedom of speech, William Pitt on the abolition of the slave trade, and the first Earl of Chatham on the American War of Independence. Mr Braithwaite traced the tremendous power for good or evil which oratory had assumed through the medium of the radio, especially in the cases of the dictators who :-\vaye;l countless millions with their hypnotic influence. Mr Winston Churchill’s speeches were always effective, as his manner was to take his audience into bis confidence and tell them the truth.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21361, 4 March 1941, Page 7
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141SWAYING THE PEOPLE Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21361, 4 March 1941, Page 7
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