IN AMERICA

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1937, Page 5

IN AMERICA

A WARNING ATTACK ON DICTATORSHIPS. (United Press Association —By Electric T elegraph—Copy right). WASHINGTON, September 17. President Roosevelt, in a commemorative address on the occasion of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of the United States,'combined a remonstrance against the Supreme Court’s usurpation of legislative powers with a sharp attack on dictatorships in the world. He issued a warning that if the United States democracy were to survive it must meet the need of the American masses for a higher standard of living. “Dictatorships have given many people material things which they did not have under democracies, but at the expense of liberty and individual rights,” he said. He warned dictatorial leaders, who derided constitutions, that modern men and women would not tamely commit to one man or one group the permanent control of their government and that dictatorship threatened civilisation. “The people of America are lightly determined to keep that growing menace from our shores,” he said. BUDGET CONTRASTS. NEW YORK, Sept. 17. The New York Times, on the occasion of the prorogation of Congress, editorially couples a tribute to the Lyons Government of Australia and an ironic thrust at the United States administration. It says: “The Australian Budget has reduced taxation and has increased the defence social services appropriation. Yet its surplus has exceeded six million dollars. What shall be said of such a misconception of Government duty? The most polite description is “aboriginal.” There is small danger of that example spreading to those nations that are devoted to an abundant life and an empty pocket.