Jona Baravilala Senilagakali Quotes
Democracy may be alright for certain people in the world, but I don't think the type of democracy Fiji needs is the type Australia and New Zealand enjoy.
Jona Baravilala Senilagakali, 1929–2011, Prime Minister of Fiji, Interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, December 6, 2006
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When ambassador to Great Britain, he was very supportive of the British Fascists, and was an admirer of Adolf Hitler. Once war with Germany was commenced, Kennedy predicted that England would lose the war and became a fascist puppet state controlled by Germany. He opposed Lend Lease and the other efforts of the Roosevelt administration to assist England to fight off the Germans. Ironically his oldest son died in a dangerous volunteermission fighting Germany in the War. Kennedy's earlier pro-German views ended his political career and was an embarassment to his sons when they entered politics.
The irony of this quotation is that he is the architect and controller of the Russian system that he is criticizing.
The country had just returned to civilian rule after years of murder and government atrocities under a military junta.
Although friendly to America, Canning was a monarchist and did not share America's enthusiasm for democracy and concern about Spanish Princes in Mexico and Brazil.
This concept was utilized by the U. S. State Department in opposition to the 1992 dissolution of the Peruvian Congress by the President who claimed he was doing it for democratic reasons. See Al Smith for a later expression of this notion.
Jona Baravilala Senilagakali was a Fijian medical doctor and diplomat who briefly served as Prime Minister of Fiji from December 2006 to January 2007. Subsequently, he was Minister for Health from 2007 to 2008.
