GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Jul. 1, 1935

The Lords: ¶ Were treated to a vigorous denunciation of Democracy—particularly the U. S. brand—and a spirited defense of Fascism by that strong-minded patriarch, the Bishop of Exeter, Rt. Rev. Lord William Gascoyne-Cecil, whose father, the late great Marquess of Salisbury, was thrice Prime Minister.

"Mussolini has said—and I believe it—that Democracy is essentially immoral," cried the Lord Bishop. "Democracy is immoral because appeal is made to the personal motive, to man's self-interest. Democracy tends to demoralize people, to make them selfish, to think of their own interests and not of...