Excerpt from What Is Democracy?
Last year the public read in a press despatch that Germany had now become a democracy, within the space of five days. I wondered whether the German people were aware of it.
In the Far East I asked a German of the office-holding class how the War would end. He replied that it would end by governmental changes and revolutions in the different countries. I asked what would be the nature of the change in Germany, to which he replied that there would be no change in his country for the reason it is so democratic that no change is needed.
We read that Great Britain, France, Belgium, Italy and the others are fighting for democracy, as if hoping to attain to it. The United States is fighting to make the world safe for democracy, looking to the future.
What, then, is democracy?
In all the world the foremost word is now Democracy. Everyone uses it or thinks in its terms. Yet it would be difficult to find a clear meaning for it in all these minds.
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