One reason for the foregone re-bad sult of the General Election that, under the system miscalled de-Imoeracy, a vote was given to practically everyone who could read, but! could not think. The question put]
audience of 28 millions was: Do you consider Britain should re-Jmain on the gold standard?" They Jwould probably get a much more in: telligent answer from a_ Shanghai rickshaw coolie, for the simple reason that he did understand the difference between big and small money. The press, B.B.C, and educational system, which formed ithe opinions of the electors, were all in the hands of the possessive classes. Democracy was useless it they destroyed all the power of the people to think for" themselves.
Mr Baldwin wag probably the cleverest_man' in' the Government, for at Cabinet meetings he was able to sit back and leave Mac-Donald & Ca. to fight his. battle against, the dangerous Conservative hotheads, without getting the blame from his Conservative colle 'The result was a Government which did, virtually nothing, and it' was probably the best type of Govern bent they could "have at the moment, for he felt, if they must have 'a' capitalist system, it was far' better it should be' run "by people who believed in the system. He "ventured to prophesy that the next General Election, probably at the end of 1934, would result ina Conservative majority of about 400 The position of the Labour Party ras at Present "exceedingly rocky." They could not really make up th minds whether they were Socialists or not. Frankly, he did not see the possibility of the Communist Party. of Great Britain taking over the Government in the im-Mediate future. Most of the LL.P.
off the tight rope" in the direction members were constantly "taling St Communism one. side oF Liber lism on, the' other. 'The Labour Party had all the strength, and the Communite Party li the' intellige ence, and the consequence was tha good many people were attempt ing to bring together these dissentient elements, and, while not fet fully successful, he was bound te say they were making progress The only alternative to the pr sent do-nothing regime, he though was either a grouping together of pointed middle classes to fay the talking politicians Place the younger people control of a Fascist admfnistrafon, or an active Socialist, policy. for the benefit not of the few but "fpiscussing whether the Portia. of the many.
mentary machine was capable of continuing to function, Lord Marley added that it hal been said that any_admiration for the House of Lords could be cured by looking at it. "This "extremely interesting anachronism" should be, abolished Tock, stock, and barrel, Tre House of Commons, which ad given away most of is' powers by. Ordersin-Council and the Emergency Powers Act, was more difficult.
"Loud Talking Foreigne Education is more needed now than over before, because the people of the world must be taught how to 'j make use of democracy, how to make Use of their leisure moments, and to realise the necessity of world peace, said Lord Marley in the course of a speech given before the American returned Students Association, on Friday evening, at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. in Route Montigny.
so-called democracy of to-day is a the opinion of Lord Marley, the complete sham everywhere in the world, and expecially in China, where over three-fourths of the population do not even have enough to eat to keep alive. In the West, he said, where the process of in-Jdustrialisation has reached a high Hdegree of efficiency, the common people's Jot is much better and they have leisure moments, although they are not yet well educated enough to [know how to make use of their leisure,
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