DEMOCRACY AT THE CROSSROADS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 17 March 1927, Page 7

DEMOCRACY AT THE CROSSROADS.

Has It Failed the World? NEW EVOLUTION BEGINNING. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March IG, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, March 15. Mr H. G. Wells, lecturing at Sorbonne, on “Democracy Under Revision,” declared that democracy at present is in a state of transition. Parliamentary democracy, since the war, was responsible for Italian Fascism, Russian Communism, and the-Chinese Nationalist movement. There was now a. desire for political, social and intellectual reorganisation, which wore beyond the capacity of the ordinary voter or politician to deal with. The Democratic Government had failed to deal with post-war problems. Who would solve them? All round there were active minorities trying to reorganise democracy. There was such need for reorganisation that the man in the .street (submitted thereto without protest. Wasn't that a beginning? What was there to hinder a. great political and religious movement recruiting all active and audacious minorities in an effort towards .social world unity.

“We are at the beginning of great evolution. First heralds appeared m literature, and art in Bernard Shaw’s “St, John,” and Ernest Toller’s ‘M asses of Men.’ ”