The Archive · 1933

Britain and Nazis

It is but natural us-ocean Kuo Min news: wency should quote, with Parent approval, extracts from leading article in the "Evening News" on the meaning of Fascism in which the editor arrives at the conclusion that Fascism is a revolt against Parliamentarianism, a revolt against speechifying, the practi-consequence of the conviction that differences of opinion may serve the purpose of affording an insight into the truth out that unanimity of opinion la the only sure way of arriving at practical results without loss of time. Fascism and Hitlerism may be revolts against Parl montananism, but whether unanimity of opinion, secured by the stifling of that opposition in the criticisms of which there may be that insight which affords glimpses of truth, is likely to secure the wisest soluus of to-day's problems remains to be seen. If time is to be the only factor in the decisions of a government there is a great danger that those decisions, however temporarily correct they may seem to be, will, in the long run, prove to be wrong. Rapid judgments may Met be incorrect: they may contain every ingredient of wisdom, but if problems are not consider-Jed from as many points of view fas possible their application may result in temporary expedients

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