DEMOCRACY

Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3212, 4 August 1932, Page 7

DEMOCRACY

Lord Ponsonby, a great-grandson of Charles Earl Grey, the British Prime Minister who brought about the passing of the Reform Bill of 1832, writing in " Current History " on " British Democracy, 1832-1932," says: " Some may condemn democracy as it has so far developed call it a failure and a danger, and assert that its further advance must be stayed. Others may contend that in a transition stage it is not fair to judge the initial efforts of a new force which in England must be slow in its development and that this is only a momentary setback. Some may Have their eyes on Russia, others on Italy. But whatever tentative conclusion may be arrived at in an examination of tffie present situation, the fundamental good sense of the British people may be counted on in the long run. They may be apathetic, stolid, and phlegmatic; they may glory in being thought stupid; but in this baffling and probably forever insoluble problem of the organisation of human society they are not unlikely to assume the leadership in the future as they have in the past."