DICTATORSHIP RULE ASSAILED

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 302, 17 September 1936, Page 11

DICTATORSHIP RULE ASSAILED

Lord Border Outspoken

"'eptember 15. Lord Border, addressing the British Association for the Advancement of Science, pungently criticised dictatorships. asking whether the colour of men’s shirts mattered if they soon became shrouds. “If a clash came between the hordes of Fascist and Communist barbarians," he said, “the salvation or the doom of the world would depend on whether Western Europe and America were able to preserve an individualised society. Britain should not trade her national characteristics, individuality, and poise for vaunted foreign panaceas. No wonder the nerves of .people to-day are on edge. , Any honest doctor will tell you that most organic complaints are due to anxiety neuroses. As fast as science has been eliminating disease functional disorders are increasing. Nevertheless, it is wrong to blame science for our troubles. On the contrary. it has loaded man with' benefits to which he has shown indifference or which he has used with criminal carelessness and prodigality.”