Its Achievements and Its Failures Tu summing up his survey of modern democracy, Viscount Bryce has arrived at the following broad conclusions "Te has maintained public order while maintaining the liberty of the individual citizen; it has given an administration as efficient as cther forms of Government have provided; its legislation has: been more generally directed to the welfare of the poorer classes than has been that of any other Government; it has not been inconstant or ungrateful; it has not weakened Patriotism or courage; it has been often wasteful, and usually extra-vacant; it has not produced general contentment in each nation.
"It has done little to improve international relations and ensure peace; it has not diminished class selfishness (witness Australia and New Zealand), has not fostered a cosmopolitan humanitarianism nor mitigated dislike of men of different colour; it has not extinguished cor. ruption and the malign, influences wealth can exert upon government it has not removed the fear of revolutions.
"Tt has not enlisted in the service of the State a sufficient number of the most honest and capable citizens; and nevertheless it has, taken all in all, given better practical results than either the Rule of One Man, or the Rule of a Class, for it has at least extinguished many of the evils by which they were defaced."
"Hope, often disappointed but always renewed, is the anchor by which the ship that carries Democracy and its fortunes will have to tide out this latest storm, as it has ridden out many storms before... Democracy will never perish till after Hope has expired." to object to the maintenance of a Civil Aviation Department, which costs £1,000,000 a year, and has steadily permitted a continual and steady decline in the affairs it has to control. As to the Secretary for Air, he is not getting the £5,000 a year and the seat in the Cabinet authorized by Act of Parliament; and it is not easy to see how he can look for them unless his Department begins to do its work. The leading French aircraft manufacturers quite frankly express astonishment at the way Great Britain has lost her grasp of an undoubted supremacy in aircraft at the end of the war. For the good of aeronautics they would much prefer to see more intelligent and vigorous measures.
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