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Elsewhere Mr. Massingham deals with Mr. St. Loe Strachey's new

book, The Referendum (Fisher Unwin, 3s. 6d. net), and puts with- his usual clearness, power and point " the other side " to the propsed addition to the Constitution. We will not reargue the question to-day, but merely make one admission in plain terms. If the object of our system of Government is not to make the Will of the Majority prevail, but some other will, then Mr. Massingham's arguments are of force. It is all a question of whether you do or do not believe in Democratic Government.

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