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ON the first page of this arresting, and indeed, challenging pamphlet, the author says, “on the face of it, Empire, the government of weaker peoples by a power outside themselves, is the very antithesis of the Democracy for which we stand”. The truth, of course, is that in a too rapid development towards independence there is great danger lest a country, lately brought within the orbit of modern civilization, be controlled by the well-educated few who will not be subject to the checks of an informed and articulate population. In such checks lies the real strength of a democratic constitution.
Democratise the Empire
A Policy for Colonial Change. By W. M. Macmillan. (The Democratic Order, No. 6.) Pp. 64. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1941.) 1s. net.
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HUSSEY, E. Democratise the Empire. Nature 147, 591 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147591a0
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