Excerpt from The Case for LibertyThe latter policy cannot exist without the support not only of genuinely representative go'vernment, but also of a lively interest in public affairs which certainly did not exist in so-called democratic countries before the war. This interest has been violently aroused in the populations of all countries since the deplorable catastrophe which resulted from the servility of the German under a criminal autocracy and from the failure of all other statesmen to save the world from the war which has all but destroyed civilisation itself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.