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...mass party, "the battering ram on the left," forces brute change on the managers of parliamentary government-so concluded the Rt. Hon. Richard Crossman in the third and final Godkin Lecture delivered at the Law School last night...
...dynamism of mass parties, argued Crossman, originates with the party militants. Curiously, the mass public will be resistant to change. "The middle-the good, common-sense voter-will pull the Cabinet back from drastic change. All the new ideas come from the militant rank and file, who are always out of tune with the majority of the voters and the party leadership...
...member of the Cabinet. Crossman delighted in "the considerable chance of changing things" with mass parties. "If we have failed in the last five years to carry out major changes, it is because we [the Cabinet] have failed. The system-especially the Parliament and civil service-gives us every chance to carry out our program...
...Crossman doubted that a mass labor party could survive in this country. "Such a party has two requirements: a homogeneous population and a continuity of leadership in positions of party power. But there is no shadow government here, no place for the leadership if it is out of power...
Friends of E. L. Godkin founded the series in 1903 to present lectures on "the essentials of free government and the duties of the citizen." Crossman has not yet announced the topic of the lectures...