Mr. LEONARD WOOLF : Introductory Talk
IT is a curious fact that Mr. Leonard Woolf has never broadcast before, although he is one of the foremost critics, essayists, and political thinkers of the day. He was Literary Editor of The Nation until 1930, and Hon. Secretary to the Advisory Committee on International Questions to the T.U.C. and Labour Party. He founded the Hogarth Press in 1917. He is to give the first six talks on this subject, to be followed by Lord Kustace Percy : these two speakers will represent widely different points of view. In this talk Mr. Woolf will introduce his subject, namoly, the conflict between the ideas : of democracy and contrary tendencies, which lias dictated the chief political and social changes of the last thirty years. He will further define the ideas underlying democracy, in order to avoid the ambiguity likely to arise through the many different senses commonly given to that word.