Roosevelt Standard | 1939-03-02 | Page 4 | Caution Urged in "Saving Democracy"

caution urged in saving democracy IF F THE united states is again to save the world for democracy if we are again to spend billions of dollars to save england and france we want to make sure that when they are saved they are saved as democracies says theodore dreiser noted writer who spoke recently in salt lake city england and france were not democracies before the war dreiser said though they were regarded as such the author pictured great class inequality in europe between poor workers and the wealthy aristocracy as he had seen it and stated the same undemocratic conditions exist today england was never a democracy and now england and france are in a corner again dreiser said and the cry is now heard again that we must save these countries as democracies if we enter the next war we had better be sure those countries will really be democratic when its all over and while cleaning up for democracy abroad we might clean up for democracy over here