THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 11, 1941
SPEECH OF MR. HENRY F. GRADY
DEMOCRACY IS UNDERGOING ITS SEVEREST TEST
“DEMOCRACY IS undergoing its severest test, WAR
and it will survive only in the event it can be made to work efficiently." Such is the premise on which
Henry F. Grady, President of the American Presid-
ent Lines, based his talk, "The Challenge to Demo- cracy," at the Jefferson Day Dinner in Oakland.
"Democracy, as a form of Government, will not survive unless it can be made to achieve higher accomplishments and a happier state than any rival form of government," Mr. Grady said. "To get these results, Democracy must be made efficient. And we can get this efficiency only when there is real devotion to the cause of Democracy, and people are willing to work and sacrifice for it."
Declaring that "Democracy ist ersentially a voluntary enterprise" Mr. Grady added:
"Our form of government based on the free will of the people. And just as Democracy's cardinal virtue is personal liberty, SO we have wi hin ourselves the free choice to preserve or destroy it. To preserve Democracy we must make it our responsibility, individually and collectively, to see that it functions with a high degree of effectiveness.
"Must Make War"
ELINOR, AT
76, WANTS
TO AID WAR
WITHIN
WAR
In the middle of a war
of two factions
M.P.s want the House of Com- the mons to decide on merits or demerits of the Oxford Group.
More than fifty MPs have as- sociated themselves with a request to the Board of Trade President to revoke the licence granted under the Companies Act to Dr. Frank Buchman und his asso- ciates in the Group.
One of the reasons given is "that Dr. Buchman's activities have been harmful to the British cause in many countries and are now occupying In the United Mrs. States a number of young British
might subjects who
be better
At the age of 76, Elinor Glyn--the roman- tic novelist, and the firstployed in this country." woman to use the word is hoping to broadcast Brit-
"This is especially true during "It" for "glamour"
an emergency such as we are facing to-day,
highly
Amendment
Robert Gower and others to the
Meanwhile, Sir
amendment tabled this motion:-
the (Con, Gillingham) states have ish propaganda to savagely challenged the democra- women of the world.
when
organised collectivist
To meet
tic way of life.
this
challenge we must make war on
who
Despite her years,
hostess.
the enemies of Democracy from still retains much of the person- campaign of the
Mrs. Glyn That this House welcomes the Oxford Group within. There are those among ality and beauty that made her us who do not share the coopera-famous as a writer
for moral rearmament with its and society results in heightened national tive concept of Democracy,
moral, increased industrial co- seek special privilege, and who
operation and the strengthening organise pressure groups to fur-
of the bonds of friendship be- tween this country, the Dominions and the United States."
"Yes, I am still the woman ther their selfish ends in con- with the flaming red hair and fict with the public interest. To make Democracy work we must, green eyes," she stated. subject personal and group Mrs. Glyn had never pretended interest to the National Interest which must at all times be Supreme."
for
age.
to be unconscious of her beauty. and it was obvious that to-day she still pays as much attention Paraphrasing the axiom that "Democracy
has within it the to her looks as a woman half her seeds of its own destruction," Mr. Grady explained there is too often a deadly time lag the functioning of democratic government which places the latter at a distinct disadvantage in dealing with totalitarian states whose leaders move at will without having to con. beautiful fur Eult with or answer to their shoulders of her fashionable grey regimented subjects.
Her Titian hair was carefully coiffeured and her lips and eyes were faultlessly made up.
He continued: This advantage
"Do I look 76?" she asked me as she fingered a rope of pearls round her neck and adjusted a
wran across
the
dress.
At The Front
offset by
the dictators, however,
is more than
the power and efficiency of a "I feel I can do something to free people voluntarily mobilis-
I
help win this war, and the only
ed to protect their interests. Once the people of a democracy way, at my age, is to reach the largest possible audience through become thoroughly aroused to the wireless," she said. their danger and freely unite in
the high
common purpose of In the last war Mrs. Glyn was defending their liberties, they one of the ablest of official propa- are always a mure formidable
gandists. She had an office in foe than a regimented people galvanised into action by the Paris, where she
Jash of a dictatur."
Keystones
wrote propa- ganda about the French for America and about the Americans for the troops in France.
She paid several visits to the
sald, front line.
is
also
"Ironically," Mr. Grady "Democracy's strength its greatest weakness. Frec speech, the right of assembly, unlimited debate and referendum
PILOTLESS 'PLANE'S DIRECT HITS
1. these are all keystones of Democracy. And yet confronted by powerful, hard-hitting dicta- tors who answer to no one, these blessings of a free people, un- less rationalised and used with great discretion, may be turned .A robot 'plane of revolutionary against them and made the in-design is being tested by United strumen's of their own destruc- | States aviation officials at Hawalį i tion. We have seen this happen and in Virginia, according to in Europe, and we should make US newspapers. haste to see that it does not
* happen in America,"
Experts have worked for ten In conclusion, Mr. Grady said: years on this pilotless aeroplane, The problem le: Will, we in which is operated by radio con- America meet the threat Introl. It takes off, discharges its time? Have We the deter-bombs over a distant target, re- mination to... make: Democracy turns and lands untouched by a work, through the willingness, human hand,
to sacrifice much now, so that ||a
We
Excrifice
wijl not hava tal The target distance is calculat- everything later? ed in advance, When the robot
"Havəzsized sonde | 'plane reaches it, a device auto- |
to foregoj
and
3 bickering, matically releases the bombs. debate, while
time le aur greatest asset The In recent tests direct hits were answers to authese vanda other scored. questions? wllf: determine wh ther or not, we
maeting thes
Cruising range, is Imited only by fuel supply rand; wireless
quency range-Reuter.
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