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A PAMPHLET entitled “The Case for the National Government” by Earl de la Warr, chairman of the National Labour Committee, stresses the failure of democratic politicians to grapple with the problems of the new world with which the man of science is confronting this generation. In many countries they are unprepared for this new challenge of the scientific world, and the seriousness of the new problems and the pace at which solutions are demanded is too much for politicians either of the Left or of the Right. He believes that dictatorships have revived because democratic politicians have been unable or unwilling to adapt themselves to the new age and therefore have been weak and indecisive in dealing with modern problems. Earl de la Warr claims that Great Britain, in its National Government, is giving the democratic reply to conditions which have led to dictatorships elsewhere. Since we are finding our way into a new world, much of the work of the Government is necessarily experimental.
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The National Government and Democracy. Nature 139, 578 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139578b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139578b0