Evening star

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has either entirely disappeared or been

effectually shackled. Arabia, China and

Morocco -have never had universal suf

frage. The following have it constitu

tionally, but are at present In fact under

more or less dictatorial regimes: Al

bania, Bolivia, Brazil, the Dominican Re

public, Ecuador, Germany, Greece, Haiti,

Iran, Italy, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal,

Turkey and the Soviet Union. Austria

had universal suffrage from 1918 to 1934,

but the 1934 constitution does not pro

vide for it. In Afghanistan, Hungary,

India, Liberia, Siam and Yugoslavia

modified, partial or indirect forms of

universal suffrage exist.

Washingtonians who have just been

acquainted with the inquisition to which

a Pennsylvania country editor was re

cently subjected before the National

Labor Relations Board find an amaz

ingly strange parallel between him and

“Doremus Jessup," hero of Sinclair

Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here.” Jessup

was a small town Vermont journalist,

of ancient New England lineage, who

believed in American democracy, but

also felt that no country in history was

so ripe for a dictatorship as the United

States. He lived to see his worst fears

confirmed, as the “League of Forgotten

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1937). Washington, D.C., 1937-12-08. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1937-12-08/ed-1/?sp=8

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1937-12-08.