31 AUGUST 1945, page 10

Marginal Comment

By HAROLD NICOLSON A S we read the newspapers, or listen to the broadcasts in our own and foreign tongues, there is one word which recurs with bewildering frequency. It is the......

It Is Evident That The System Adopted In Western Europe,

as manifested by the General Election of July 26 last, and the system adopted in Eastern Europe, as manifested by what is happening in Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria, differ from......

If, On The Other Hand, We Use The Word "

Democracy " to denote our own Liberal system, under which the State is regarded as a balanced organism,• and under which the interests of minorities and the rights of the......

The Aroma Of Virtue Which The Word " Democracy "

has acquired in the vocabulary of Europe and America arose therefore from a misunderstanding of the sense in which it had been used by the Greeks. To them the expression was not......

It Is Unfortunate That, Owing Perhaps To The Confusion...

uy such emotionalists as J. J. Rousseau and Tom Paine, this difference between selfish and =selfish, undiluted and diluted, systems has become obscured; and that we have......