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The soldiers are not allowed to express their point of view. In war-time the word patriotism means suppression of truth.

Henry William Massingham

Liberalism is not a revolutionary force, and it cannot dispense with middle-class brains and management. The existing aristocracy is lost to it, and well lost.

Henry William Massingham

Unless the American Liberal idea of the peace ultimately prevails with us and replaces the more official idea of a territorial peace, sustained by armaments, British progress to democracy must suffer arrest [...] The entry of America into the war is the best hope that offers the return to power of Liberal democracy in Europe.

Henry William Massingham

Henry William Massingham

Henry William Massingham

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Born: May 25, 1860

Died: August 27, 1924 (aged 64)

Bio: Henry William Massingham was an English journalist, editor of The Nation from 1907 to 1923. In his time it was considered the leading British Radical weekly.

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