The New Order is Very Old
HE dictatorships which claim to be establishing their "new orders" in Europe and Asia are really nothing new at all. Tyranny is unfortunately as old as humanity itself. It is the crudest and the most commonplace of governmental systems. Democracy, on the other hand, is not an easy form of government to operate, and for that reason it has been somewhat rare in history. It requires such advanced qualities in a peo} le that it has been an unusual oecurrehce. "Tt is not the rule but the" exception. Because we ate fortunate to live under a democratic system, we sometimes tend to regard it as normal. But that is not the case. There have been in the past many more . dictatorships than democracies; only a relatively few nations have managed to establish a democracy and maintain it-(Winter Course Series: " Democracy Throught the Ages," by Professor Leslie Lipson, V.U.C., 2YA, June 30.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 108, 18 July 1941, Page 5
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