English Translation

197.) The question of how this is always used to be in critical times or in times of upheaval was fundamental and decisive for the understanding of the political history of these years. The case of the European democracy in the last decade was above all the case of its agitators, perhaps no evidence to be quoted at all; the Rihrer of Weimar-Germany, the pre-fascist Italy, Frankreioh, Poland, South Slavia, Rumgnien, etc. Before 1939 (Daladier, Bonnet, Cham- berlain, Bedk, Stodajinovié, Prince Paul, etc.) are seriously responsible for today's European and world catastrophe. Democrats did not fall because they were bad as a regime, but mainly because their leaders were bad, weak and unfghig. In feudal and monarchist times, feudality was diverted from the aristocratic family origin, and it was also based to a significant extent on property. The political scramblers did not reach their leading position in political life because of their personal merits and achievements; they were mostly born into leadership, they inherited the riherdom as they inherited their skills and property; in modern democratic times, political renown is read out and elected in various forms. But since even in so democratic states such as Great Britain there are strong social and traditional remains of the old aristocratic and class system and since most of the euro-