TO-DAY'S YOUTH
SAVIOURS OF WORLD "S;Miie yc.nng. people think tliey are unlucky to have been born into th'.s a ge, faced with frustration, with lack of opportunity, and with suffering before any kind of life hasbeen open to them. Such thoughts are understandable. bill the young people of to-day are luckier than those oT my generation that went to war to end war and now have to face another. Present youth shoiih: be able to' profit from mistakes, and it should be easier to get many thanks changed than in the satisfying period described, by an historian as the Victorian sunset. Youth will know what an abyss is like, and will have inspiration to climb up to the sunshine again. How, out of the chaos, can the freedom essential to an ideal community be achieved and human values restored? There will have to be first a great revival of the power of organised religion. Here is the only kind of check against Ihe power of totalitarianism. The only power free from State domination is organised religion. Realisation of that is growing."—Miss Vera Brittain, in the course of a speech reported in the Birmingham Pest.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 37, 8 April 1942, Page 2
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194TO-DAY'S YOUTH Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 37, 8 April 1942, Page 2
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