DANGER SIGNALS
DICTATORS' SUCCESSES v WARNING BY MR EDEN LONDON, Apl. 26. Faith in democracy, coupled with a warning, was the keynote of a speech made by the former Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, at a St. George's Day dinner. Mr Eden, while reiterating his faith in democracy, declared that it would be fatal to its survival to ignore the stupendous achievements of the dictatorships. Britain, he said, must make a comparable effort and arouse an equal spirit to enable democratic ideals to prevail. Such an effort would entail general and individual sacrifices, the abandonment of party warfare for its own sake and. a. united endeavour for spiritual and material rearmament.
England, Mr Eden went on, must bequeath to posterity the art of free government by a free people. " The care-free days after the war, when we thought we could rest on our laurels and return to the old secure wavs of life, are gone for this generation," he said. " The dangef signals are up. Britain cannot stand still. "We must make every possible contribution to the future of mankind and ensure an acknowledgment of international law."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23492, 5 May 1938, Page 11
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