AN UNENDURABLE EVIL

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 225, 14 October 1940, Page 2

AN UNENDURABLE EVIL

THAT AGAINST WHICH BRITAIN! IS NOW FIGHTING I WICKED THINGS GOME TO PASS "We do not always realise," said Mr Harold Nicholson, M.P., "how unendurable is the evil against which we are fighting. It is not only that Hitler and his confederates have for seven years been skilfully planning the destruction of the French and British people. When I contemplate the savagery of their

attack; when I reflect upon the turpitude of their methods; when my heart is Avrung with pity for those small but valued nations whose liberties they have trampled in the. mud; when I think how the ambi - tion of these evil men has spread death and fire over peaceful ctfti.cs or over fields basking in the loveliest summer there has ever been; when I look forward with sorrow, I but without fear, to the ordeals to which our own beloved country is to be exposed; lam filled Avith profound unhappiness that such wicked things shouM come to pass. But when I realise that behind all these iniquities is the greatest iniquity of all, the revival of cruelty and fear, I find that my sorrow and my unhappiness are but weak tilings in comparison with the surge .of anger which arises in my soul."