Editing Saunders Lewis (section)

==The Lewis Doctrine 1926–1939==
During the inter-war years, ''Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru'' was most successful as a social and educational pressure group rather than as a political party.<ref name="Davies_591">{{harvp|Davies|1994a|p=591}}</ref> For Saunders Lewis, party president 1926 to 1939, "the chief aim of the party [is] to 'take away from the Welsh their sense of inferiority&nbsp;... to remove from our beloved country the mark and shame of conquest.{{'"}} Lewis sought to cast ''Welshness'' into a new context, wrote Davies.<ref name="Davies_591"/>

Lewis wished to demonstrate how Welsh heritage was linked as one of the 'founders' of European civilization.<ref name="Davies_591"/> Lewis, a self-described "strong [[Monarchism|monarchist]]", wrote "Civilization is more than an abstraction. It must have a local habitation and name. Here its name is Wales."<ref name="Davies_591"/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4329001.stm |title=Royal plans to beat nationalism |work=[[BBC News]] |date=8 March 2005 |access-date=28 August 2012}}</ref> Additionally, Lewis strove for the stability, educational and cultural advancement, and economic prosperity of local communities in [[Y Fro Gymraeg]]. He also denounced both [[laissez faire]] [[capitalism]] and [[Marxism]], and instead promoted what he called ''{{lang|cy|perchentyaeth}}'': (lit. "distributing property among the masses"), based on [[Catholic social teaching]], [[Distributism]], and [[Christian democracy]].<ref name="Davies_591"/>