PULSE OF AEONS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 256, 10 January 1941, Page 8

PULSE OF AEONS

HELLA'S FREEDOM'S STORY NOT SPEAR, BOW AND ARROW i Noav the Greeks, battling success- ( fully against aggression, join once more the main stream of freedom,'s story. Sparta marches, Corinth, and all the islands, marching for freedom. Athens has waited, and still waits, for the roar of the upstart poAver; Avaits in the sunshine, pallid Avith ancient beauty, lifting again to the sky its massive challenge, pillar toy pillar. This that once Avas Greece remains as itsi glory; not the spear, nor the bow Aviih arroAvs, not the Avill to destroy, but the aspiration to be found Avorthy. It is strange to picture the gun emplacements, and the metal fingers that comb the heavens, seeking out the destroyer in robot vultures, over fair Athens? Grim and black are the columns# of iron barrels, grim and black by the Avhiteness of marble columns, grim and hard by the softness of sun-drenched temples, alien iron. Yet Avith these inexorable pens of history, noAv all Hellas, once so by Avar divided, has pointed not onlj r its ancient self together, against the divider.

But once more comes into the front of free men. comes toward union with nations that learned from Hellas freedom, order, restraint and that these could outlast even the',i'r symbols. Learned from Greece whose glory was in its ruins, that the substance is strong though its stone may crumble, and now to Greece hold out their hands in alliance old as men's dignity.