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Woman's. PAGE anes Lonon, Cioss-Wor Puziizs Stary YEAR OG cee Will It Be A Concerto? of a St, George's Day banquet in London, is a most striking one. It does not matter how mich disagreement there may be with the political doctrines inspiring such countries Germany and Moly; the fact still remains that the autocratic system has brought about much improvement in the status of those two coun tries and to a great extent in their internal conditions, What those nations have achieved Mr, Eden rightly describes as stupendous, and there will be agreement with him when he states that it would be foolish, and, perhaps fatal to the very survival of democracy to ignore them. Exactly how a similar fervour can be aroused in a democracy during peace times it is a lite diMeult to sec, for the operation of the political party system, lacking unanimity of counsel, must inevitably put a drag on such progress as Mr, Eden would have. There is this comforting thought about Great Britain, that, in moments of danger, divergent parti swiftly coalesce, and present a common front to the enemy. It is, perhaps, regrettable that this apparent disunity in times of peace cannot be done away with. Unfortunately it" would mean the abolition of the democracy and the Institution of conditions in which individual freedom, so dear to the heart of the Anglo-Saxon, would have to disappear in favour of a strict control analogous to that prevailing in the countries mentioned, That would be entirely foreign to the genius of the Yace, and whi might suit the German and Italian would most certainly not suit the British, There are ques tions on which Britons would make tone man, would subordinate individualism in the interests of the common good, but the sink ing of individuality in times of peace Is ly not to be expected of them. In tim"
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