TRADITIONS IGNORED
NATIONS OF “YES MEN.” “Great Britain is the inheritor of national institutions and national traditions which have seven centuries cf tradition behind them. Through all the vicissitudes of time she has preserved those institutions and those traditions with a majestic tenacity; in this proud inheritance she lives and moves and has her being. Is she suddenly to abandon it now, just because, owing to misfortunes of history or to disabilities of temperament sundry of Germans and Italians and Russians have chosen to become somebody’s Yes men? Be cause others have found it useful to revert to methods which we discarded in the Middle Ages, are we to be pushed off our stride and to be driven back into courses which we have left behind us since the days of our political infancy? It is not, of course, for us to criticise the institutions of ethers or to claim superiority for cur own. What matters is that we remain true to ourselves as we have ever remained true in the past.”— Morning Post.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3831, 9 November 1936, Page 7
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174TRADITIONS IGNORED Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3831, 9 November 1936, Page 7
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