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IN a volume entitled “Recovery: the Second Effort”, Sir Arthur Salter outlined a scientific programme of recovery conspicuous for its vision and sense of values. He has now produced an equally comprehensive review* of the international situation to-day, which outlines an equally scientific programme for retrieving security, no longer in the field of economics but in that of power politics. Beyond this, however, Sir Arthur has given us not only a frank and realistic picture of the grave dangers which confront democracy and all that it stands for to-day, not merely a challenge, but also a vision of hope. Through all the dangers which now confront democracy, he sees its innate strength. Its weakness can still be repaired in time if we but bring to the service of its virtues bred and nursed to the pursuit of peace, the sterner virtues of fortitude, energy, the will to act together, the free acceptance of discipline and sacrifice. Faults of organization and leadership can be made good if recognized, and the book is to be welcomed even if only for this reminder that with courage and vision, the recognition of danger and not the refusal to see it, we can yet eliminate the sources of weaknesses in the free democracies.
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Democracy and Leadership. Nature 144, 221–222 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144221a0
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