EDUCATING ELECTORATES

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 112, 14 May 1934, Page 16

EDUCATING ELECTORATES

"Lcaderhip may be an abstract conception," said Lord Allen of Hurtwood in a recent speech, "and yet it is one of the .most realistic things in the ..world. Let only someone in authority say boldly to the natioii and/ to the world that which all men in the secret places pf their hearty know is true and the response will be forthcoming and achievement will immediately follow. I take a hopeful.view of the state of public opinion. It is alert as no electorate previously at the disposal of statesmen. Education has now' borne fruit; the war has liberated men from old-time traditions'and superstitions in thought and practice. ; Above all, the invention of broadcasting has placed at, man's disposal a technique of education and political leadership of value. Broadcasting is making of our nation a great university. .'• just when democracy had become so vast that it had seemed to place the electors beyond the roach of political leaders, broadcasting has made the nation once. more a city State, so that, politicians of all schools, of thought can speak personally, direct to the voter* at his 'fireside. Tho electors are becoming accustomed .to debate dispassionate argument -and continuing education going on all the time, day by daj^.".