COMMUNISM VERSUS NAZISM

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 167, 13 October 1941, Page 4

COMMUNISM VERSUS NAZISM

BORN since the close of the Great War, the two new orders which emerged from the shambles and transformed the national aspect of Germany and Russia are now locked in a life and death struggle. Into it has been dragged the Italian order of Fascism which will also, stand- by the outcome of the titanics struggle which is reddening the Soviet borders. Democracy the oldest type of government has been granted a respite in the process of the greatest test which has ever assailed its existence. Yet Democracy which has its roots in the storied past for hundreds of years has seen fit to ignore the lesons, of its evolution and for the time being at any rate link forces with the champion of world, Communism, This move startling as it would have seemed twelve months ago, has been dictated by the common hate of the aggressor nation which has been responsible for the vast picture of bloodshed and despair which is Europe today. The linking of forces with Russia, which under the present regime can almost dome under the same classification as the Dictatorships themselves is probably a vast step towards the common world understanding to which humanity turns hopeful and expectant eyes in the era which succeeds the present struggle. In the meantime apart from supplies and a limited amount of active assistance in the air, Great Britain (the only remaining belligerent democracy) stands the spectator as the two vast armies bred and perfected under the rival systems of Nazism and Bolshevism test their individual merits in a war to the death. Help for the Soviet against the common enemy of mankind was the only course open to the Empire and to the U.S.A., in view of the procession of events which embroiled the nation of the Russias.