GREATEST DANGER TO PEACE
CONVICTION OF DICTATORS. “If we love democracy enough." said Dr. A. D. Lindsay. Master of Balliol College. Oxford, in a recent speech, “it can be maintained through war as it has before been so maintained.* It may be harder to defend democracy in wartime than in peace." he added, "but it is a good deal easier to defend it or civilisation than anything worth defending in a Fascist-controlled country. In any case the defence of democracy and civilisation in war-time is a far easier task than the doctrinaire pacifist assigns his country, when he asks it to use only passive resistance against aggression. Is there any likelihood that a world ruled by the dictators of today will be a world of peace, or that wo shall bo allowed by those who would then be our master to keep out. of war? The greatest danger to peace in Europe in those years has been the conviction in the minds of the dictators that in no circumstances will the democracies light to maintain the rule of law or 1o resist lawless aggression.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1939, Page 6
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