MORAL BASIS OF LIFE
IN this world of diminished hopes, of increasing nihilism, the Axis leaders found their chance to reintroduce thei rule of pure force and cruel anarchy. We do not belittle in any way the. sins and outrages of the Axis by admitting to ourselves that we had all helped to build a moral climax favourable^to the success of such outrages. If we neglect the moral Jbasis of our life we invite a revolution against the very conception of moral law. The world-wide, war which has been created by the Axis is, in fact, such a revolution. It is a revolt against a concept of civilisation b.y peoples who boast that they believe in nothing but force and who therefore can no more build a "n>w order'" than the gangster who has murdered all the policemen can build a city government.—Mr John G. Winant.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 74, 21 May 1943, Page 4
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