THE WAY OF REVOLUTIONS
FOR over a quarter of a century ruffians have talked revolution in Australia, and fools have listened. France had a "great" Revolution. Middle-class dreamers started it ; the Paris mob took control; there were frightful massacres in the prisons, civil wars, famine:, foreign wars, victories as dazzling as those of Hinderburg and Ludendorf and as useless, all with so frightful a destruction of manhood that France lost for all time the first position in Europe. When the "great'" Revolution began there were as many Frenchmen as Germans. Out of its wars and those of Napoleon came the aggrandisement of Russia and Prussia and the unification of Germany, the defeats of 1870,. 1914 and 1917 and the crowning disaster of 1940. Except in patriotic moments, the nation has never ceased to be divided. If it is still incapable of unity, if, with the prospect of redemption, Frenchmen return to destroying Frenchmen as. in 1871 and 1793 and succeeding years, under forms of law or with new refinements of mob cruelty, it will be a very long time before France rises again, as Smuts has said. —- The Bulletin, Sydney.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 1, 22 August 1944, Page 4
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