DEFINING DEMOCRACY
Here is an authentic definition of democracy made the other day by M. Stauning, the broad-shouldered, fullbearded Danish Prime Minister to a Nazi propagandist who tried to wean him from his democratic faith says a writer in the Evening Standard Asked by the Nazi what he found in socialdemocracy that could not be provided by National-Socialism. M Stauning said: "Well, when f go home at night I like to buy ray own choice of an evening paper and to read what 1 want I like to turn on the radio and listen to what I want to hear, and, when ' go to church. I like to attend the par ttcular form of service which appeals to me. But if you want to know what I really prize in democracy it’s this’ When I’m awakened up by a tumbril rattle in the streets in the early hours of the morning. T know It’s only the milkman ”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23672, 2 December 1938, Page 15
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