Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 2, No. 13 July 5, 1939
Three Men in a Dish
Three Men in a Dish
Messrs. Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, all boil down to the same thing as far as Democracy is concerned. All are antagonistic to democratic government: to organisation into parties that vary in political creed. They are opposed to freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of public meeting. All or them are authoritarian, dictatorial, cruel, ruthless, unscrupulous, warlike. All of them demand and produce a passive, servile character. Reds, Browns and Blacks submissively swathe themselves in uniforms, march in squads, shout slogans, block cars, lift hands, and smash opponents heads. Freedom and individuality are swept away. The Duce, the Fuhrer, the Leader, the Dictator—each captains a nation of pupnets; each winds up his slavish automata and sets them off to work his will.