STAKES NOT EQUAL
THE. HUN AND THE BRITISH ASSETS NOT COMPARABLF A parallel between thei British Empire to-day and Rome in the time of Julius Caesar was suggested by Mr A. Brown in a luncheon address to the Canterbury branch of the New Zca'and Society of Accountants. In the centuries after Julius Caesar, he said, Rome had abu Mxl her power, wcialth and prosperity, regarding them as means only to ease and luxury. Britain, it might be flaid, was now being given a* '''kick in the pants" for giving way to easy ways of living. In spite of all the tragedy and terror of the l war, it had done good in turning attention to spiritual values—the ethic principles and laws inherited from earlier civilisa tions. "The stakes between us and the Hun are not equal," he said. "Tliei* national and spiritual assets are not comparable to ours.* Whatever liberty Ave aro going' to get, it must be liberty within the bounds and decency of the law."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 122, 27 June 1941, Page 2
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167STAKES NOT EQUAL Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 122, 27 June 1941, Page 2
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