Failure of Democracy?
“One cannot live in England today without feeling that the question of the totalitarian State is on top of one. On all sides can be sensed a tenseness of apprehension that war is actually imminent,” said the Rev. Malcolm Wilson, who returned recently to New Zealand from York, England, in an address to members of the Waimate Churchmen’s Fellowship. The rise of the totalitarian State was one of the most striking phenomena in the postwar world, Mr Wilson said, but even more significant was the failure of democracy, from which failure the totalitarian State had risen. Whether democracy would fail ultimately was another question, he said.
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Southland Times, Issue 23677, 28 November 1938, Page 13
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109Failure of Democracy? Southland Times, Issue 23677, 28 November 1938, Page 13
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