The Bay of Plenty Beacon
Published Wednesdaj T s and Fridays.
MONDAY NOV. 27th, 1939
TO SERVE OVERSEAS* ALTHOUGH not unexpected, the announcement that the Dominion's first quota of fighting men is to be sent overseas in the near future has come as something of a shock. Though we are an actively'belligerent country in the wake of Great Britain, we have as yet failed to grasp the fact, or to realise the course of this amazing new type of warfare. Up to the present time, with two and a half months of conflict already passed, New Zealand has scarcely experienced the influence of war in its more harrowing aspect. The fact that her sons were in training, for the grim purpose of waging a war which would make the world safe for individual l freedom, has seemed strangely unreal. There, have been no major clashes such as the world fearfully anticipated; rather £t has been more a war of words, bitter invective, vitriolic propaganda, and people have blinded themselves to realities in the hope that this war would be one of international spleen rather than an armed conflict attended with all the horrors of modern destruction. We are experiencing our first taste of the call to arms, and as in 1914 y the destination is unknown. Just how long the storm will hold off, just how long before: we as a people become embroiled in the conflagration which may develop any moment ds a matter of complete conjecture, but we hold tenaciously to the hope that the tyrants that rule Nazi Germany, may yet beqome enmeshed in the toils of their own making. Daily the reports of unrest and rebellion within the Reich grow: concentration camps are taxed, to capacity with miserable suspects while the dreaded Gestapo are redoubling their inhuman methods of persecution, denouncements and murder. The query which besets the whole world to-day (is 'Can Nazi Germany afford to wage a major conflict in the face of the tremendous strain from the revolutionary elements within.'
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 93, 27 November 1939, Page 4
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