IDEALS OF DEMOCRACY
APPEAL TO THE EMPIRE N;.Z. STATESMAN’S I VIEWS (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received Sept. 28, 2 p.m.) TORONTO, Sept. 27. A hope that the British commonwealth would hold fast, to the ideals of democracy was expressed to-day by Mr W. Downie Stewart, addressing the Political Association. The drift of Europe was' toward Fascism and dictatorships, he said, but “Fascism had not taken substantial root in Britain nor in any of the Empire countries.” He admitted the claims of critics that democracies were inclined to be unstable, and explained that two great dangers were degeneration into anarchy, or the development of a dictatorship. Associations of manufacturers and workers, men of letters, men of science, the freedom of the press, and an independent judicial system were safeguards which helped to save democracies from slipping into dictators’ hands.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18205, 28 September 1933, Page 8
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139IDEALS OF DEMOCRACY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18205, 28 September 1933, Page 8
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