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Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1933, Page 4

*Wf. h ave roach e-t ia stage in social 'Vvelopment in which the feelings of the ordinary man in the street are at once raised to intornntmnnl important-,” says the Dublin Review in an article which lips the test cricket controversy in mind. “Time wrs when ;f i its feelings were again a*'d a train cwrected befbrte they played their part in national affairs. Thcv mi:' 1 ' 1 their way slowljy.'-iin the several levels of oduoUk-n and classes of society to

lie met at tho ton by opposite feelings arising from different circumstances, land what appeared at the en-cl us the expression of the nation’s will was something very different from what most individuals a® individuals thought. Even to-day something like that happens in all co-operation that is wortu-while having. Modern rapidity, and, most of all, the modern press, have made all that impossible.

• • . An individual can control his temper and his feelings, and his actions for the . most part have little importance in the long run. But once the will of a, nation has received public expression it is very hard to go back on it. Palmerston used to give that a® the reason why democracies would always fail in diplomacy. Furthermore, the actions of a nation lead to chi’.in of consequences for . the lives of individuals, the end of which no man can see. And yet it seems that nowadays there is no guarantee that the will cf the nation will he an improvement on the passing feelings of the individual who blip pens to take an exaggerated interest in games. On the contrary, there is every likelihood that it will not. Need we lock further for the cause of many •of our troubles?”