TESTING TIME FOR DEMOCRACY
We have come to a point where democracy has to prove whether it can answer to the concrete tests of an exacting world, says the London Observer. Many of its unquestionable virtues are irrelevant to that issue. Its services to the individual will not secure its survival unless its methods are adequate to the preservation of the community. If its defensive fabric proves inferior to that of the dictatorships, it will crash as surely as the earthen pot among the iron ones. And the. result will be a verdict of moral, no less than physical. inferiority, for it will mean that in self-sacrifice, nerve, and adaptation to emergency our liberties leave us below the standard attained by other codes of government.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23501, 16 May 1938, Page 16
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125TESTING TIME FOR DEMOCRACY Otago Daily Times, Issue 23501, 16 May 1938, Page 16
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