IN THIS WAR
NEED FOR OFFENSIVE ACTION
"As a strategist, Mr Churchill Knows the perils of remaining entirely on the defensive, and he has frequently reiterated the vital necessity of seizing the initiative as soon as it can be done. But this struggle in which wc are engaged is not merely a military contcst. We .stand at one of the grand climacterics. of world history, and it is two ways of life that are in contest, two philosophies whose implications reach, as no one has explained morn eloquently than Mr Churchill, into every corner and aspect' ol: human life. What is disturbing more and more citizens of this democracy is the suspicion that in the Government's mind, our way of life is purely on the defensive. I'f so, then the prospect of victory is a relapse into the blindness, the coAvardice and the stupidity that brought vis to our present pass. Then, indeed, Britain is an elderly and declining na\ onmaking one last brave spasm of resistance before it yields."—Lord Hugh Cecil.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 45, 27 April 1942, Page 5
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172IN THIS WAR Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 45, 27 April 1942, Page 5
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