BENES ON DEMOCRACY
Democracy To-day and To-morrow. By Eduard Benes (Right. Book Club.) 4s 6d. This is a study of the conflicting ideologies that rack the world to-day, by a man who 1 must be regarded as one of the foremost living authorities on sociology and -the political sciences. The President of erstwhile Czechoslovakia here in, measured terms condemns the Nazi and Fascist systems of Government, describing them as a brutally and materialistically aristocratic conception of public and social life. He declares that they are anti-
religious, while democracy as a system of thought could not be but religious. He denies the possibility of the coexistence of two such regimes in Europe. One of them must disappear if the peace and collaboration of nations are to be preserved. In the final chapter he predicts the eventual victory of democracy, and says that to U will fall the task of rebuilding Europe out of the ruins of Nazidom. _ _
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24627, 7 June 1941, Page 4
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