VOX POPULI
MAYOR ARCHER DISCLAIMS MUSSOLINI AMBITIONS [Special to the 'Siab.’l CHRISTCHUIICH, April 17. Replying to statements made by representative citizens of Christchurch on the desire to bo “Dictator ot Christchurch,” which he expressed at the opening of the Limvood Avenue School ou Saturday, the mayor (the Rev. J, K. Archer) to-day claimed that some men seemed utterly devoid of a sense of humour. , “So far as I am concerned/ he said, “ one of. my pet aversions is dictatorship, and personally 1 think it won Id be a relief to the world if Mussolini were got out of it. I have, however, like other people, my dreams, and sometimes I wonder what 1 would do if I were in such a. position. If is all merely a matter of theory and speculation, however, and so far as rulorship is concerned I am an unqualified democrat. Though democracy docs not always do what I think should be done, I prefer to let the people decide whatever may bo the decision.”
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Evening Star, Issue 19844, 18 April 1928, Page 2
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