ARMED DEMOCRACY
IS IT A DISEASE? “Armed democracy is rather a disease to which democracies are subject than an alternative and distinct system of government. The recorded symptoms are a party tyranny and a complete elimination of freedom, a prolongation of the war-time omnipotence of the State, and a systematic concentration on the mind of youth. But as all diseases have their cycles, democracy may yet outgrow this strange corruption of itself. The world beyond the German frontier was promptly faced with an armed resurrection of the old German and a harsh restatement! in instalments) of those ideals which they had laboured to suppress in the World War. The nobler, no less than the more questionable, aspects of the European settlement of 1919 were directly challenged, and a world at peace became almost at once a world in an uneasy argument with war-makers. —■ Mr Philip Guedalla.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3842, 4 December 1936, Page 9
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146ARMED DEMOCRACY Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3842, 4 December 1936, Page 9
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