Show J f. f Where Violence Breeds T E yay ay in which government government- b by dictator- dictator A- A L sI ship p exacts discipline from those in the thc theiron iron grip of the sY is being beng shown to the world b by those in the seats seals of the mighty in jn Ru ia The assassination of Sergei Marono Marono- t i n by a disgruntled communist who t r lot llis' llis job in a minor political post has been been- by the arrest of or scores of suspect contra rc friars Trials swifter than just have he Ve b h been cn n followed by bj wl wholesale executions Th That h t 4 is S' S th heway vay the red terror deals with ith those 59 W ft tg g p fo i Si o oi known L c i to dwellers in iii a lan land of complete completo repression Where free discussion is shut off ott ballot boxes are seal sealed scaled cd an and ordinary processes of self self-gov eminent arc are abolished there is only one Olle way in irE which a a. man can express his opposition to government policies by violence uprising which resulted in inthe the murder of Dollfuss the German plot which led Hitler to order the thc execution of Roehm and Von Schleicher and now lio this Russian upheaval are nrc part and parcel of the autocratic process We y c have been told that the tide is setting away from democratic processes that freedom dom i. i is a luxury too expensive for the modern world and that is too inefficient and cumbersome to be tolerated in a high high- speed mechanized commonwealth There is a substratum of truth in the assertions People Have grown disillusioned with democracy freedom can be retained only by sacrifices sac sac- democratic governments cannot al always always nl al- ways act with speed and anti decisiveness But assassinations and mass executions go on the thc theother theother other side of the tho ledger They Ther refI reflect ct an nn in inefficiency inefficiency in in- efficiency greater an and more costly than anything anything any any- thing to be bc found in a a. democracy the democracy the inefficiency of despotism by which the inevitable manifestations of human dissent can be bc expressed ex cx- pressed and answered only by bloody violence |