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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 243, 14 July 1928, Page 14

“A decade or so ago socialism preached its confident hopes, and patriotism and imperial pride shared its, attraction for the ever grave and passionate will of emergent youth. No ( w socialism and democracy are ‘under revision,’ and flags that once waved bravely reek of poison gas, are stiff with blood and \ mud and shameful with exposed dishonesties. Youth is what youth has al- • wavs been, eager for fine interpretations of life, capable of splendid resolves. But it comes up out of its childhood to-day into a world of ruthless exposures and cynical pretensions. The past ten years has seen the shy and powerful idealism of youth at a loss and dismayed as perhaps it has never been before. It is in the world still, but masked, hiding even from itself in a whirl of small excitements and futile, defiant depravities.”—H. G. Wells.