TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 18764, 20 December 1935, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The Dictatorships In the more advanced countries the dictatorships are already lending to the results easily foreseen by anyone aware of tho many past attempts on more or less similar lines. The history of mankind is strewn with their wreckage. Violence may control political factors, but not economic. Dictatorships do not, in fact, bring pros-, pority. Further, having been established and maintained by force, the same reliance upon force always leads to an expansion of armaments, involving very heavy expenditure, draining the resources of the nation. To-day, in Germany and Italy, the state of the national economy and the condition of the working classes show to the rest of the world the red light of danger. Under a dictatorship, as elsewhere, differences of opinion inevitably arise on matters of policy. Dui instead of each question in turn being discussed openly and decided by votes publicly cast in a representative assembly, the arc discussed in secret and the decision is given according to the influences operating on tlic mind of one individual.'’’ —Sir Herbert UumuC