"DECADENT NATION''

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 226, 16 October 1940, Page 3

"DECADENT NATION''

| ARGUMENTS BY PRISONERS WHAT ENGLAND HEARS One significant fact desci'ves to be remembered as well by those who fight upon the trade front as by any> writes the Mercantile Guardian, a London trade journal. Prisoners continue to come into British hands and among, them German officers. Under encouragement they tails and the notable thing is that all or most ol them say the same thing, using words which point unerringly to a common source of inspiration. They adduce three invincible reasons why it is perfectly absurd for the Allies to suppose they stand even the remotest chance of winning this Avar. Beardless boy after beardless boy, ignorant of anything outside the lessons of the Nazi seminaries, uses the same arguments in the same order. For present purposes it is needless to go beyond the first: "In the first place you are » decadent nation.'' Words do not need to be bandied upon the matter of opinion in which free English, Sots, Welsh and Irish* Australians, New Zealanders and Canadians (to name no others) hold one view, and the young parrots of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) take another. Whenever tempted to take a despondent view the words may be recommended as a tonic. When an extra stimulant is needed, be it remembered that the most degraded creatures in history have taught their offspring to believe that they have to deal with a decadent race. Everyone has his part to play in their disillusionment.