National Affairs: Unexplainable Reason

Monday, Sep. 22, 1930
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Said Charles Gates Dawes, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, master of mob-psychology, speechmaking last week at a dinner given by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool: "For some unexplainable reason, when people listen through the radio to speeches of demagogs their instincts are not aroused in the same way as when they are in a crowd."

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