ABSTRACT
It is symptomatic that Hitler, in his rise to power, was helped not only by German but by American and British industrialists. Political democracy is seen as the flower of social justice, and to attempt to plead for political democracy except it be rooted in social justice is to put a very fine flower, but still a cut flower, in a glass where it may look very well for a time, but where it is not in a position to stand any very great stress. The reason why the Liberal Party stands today as the mere facade of a once great party is its hesitation in the early days of the twentieth century to take the necessary steps to create a system of social justice as a firm pedestal to that statue of political democracy which it undoubtedly had done a very great deal to erect.
