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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

Comments —Reflections

He is not poor who has enough tor bis needs. If it is well with your stomach, your lungs, and your feet, royal wealth can add nothing more.—Horace.

“Give me leave always to live and die in this mind, that be is not worthy to live at all. that for fear pf danger or death sliunnetb bis country s service and his own honour, seeing that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue immortal.” —Sir Walter Raleigh.

••I am dead against the employment of air bombardment as a weapon of mass terrorism. Apart from the issue of morality I don’t think bombing of civilians is a military expedient which has worked. It hasn’t worked in Spain or China, and it won’t work in Britain or Germany. I believe it would be a wasteful diversion of effort to turn bombers off good military targets to put them ou civilians.” —Sir Archibald Sinclair, British Minister for Air.

From many sources there has been emphasized during the past few days a new feeling of confidence that Britain will be the rock of resistance on which tbe Nazi blizkrieg will dash itself to pieces. You cannot ignore the fact that the British Isles contain 45,000.000 free people determined tc( protect their freedom and that thei are backed to the hilt by a determine? Empire with enormous resources.” — “Vancouver Sun.”

In an article on “English—All Dressed Up,” the organ of the Headmasters of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has some pleasant examples of bow to make a little English go a long way when done up in the best official manner: —“More precipitation, less acceleration” (“More haste, less speed”) ; “Proceed to the due performance of your prescribed task” (“Go to it”) ; “You are enjoined not to disseminate reports of indeterminate provenance which have insufficient basis of authenticity and. which by repetition tend to acquire cumulative inexactitude” ("Don’t spread rumours”).

"Two things have come back to the Front Bench of the Commons in the past session, grip and oratory, or in plainer language, Mr. Wiuston Churchill. Consider the sequence of catastrophies in Holland, Belgium, France and Italy, then place alongside them the speeches of the Prime Minister. History knows no comparison. If Dunkirk was an epic, if our Air Force and Navy perform daily miracles, if the whole civilian population is inspired to fresh efforts, then let praise be given to that great and gallant man who has matched each occasion with prompt and punctual action and clothed tbe action in immortal language. Parliament and people have been waiting for leadership, they have it now in full measure.” —Mr. Kenneth Lindsay, M.P.

The petition launched against South Africa’s participation in the war by the reunited Nationalist leaders is obviously a demand to make political capitai out of the conflict upon the outcome of which depend the liberty and independence of this country. The ex cuse that the entry of Italy into the struggle creates a new situation which must be dealt with by the Union is so thin that only the most feebleminded will accept it. The attempt to divide the people of South Africa into two warring factions at this crisis is as anti-national and unpatriotic a course as could be imagined. AVe believe the bulk of the people of South Africa will indignantly repudiate the suggestion that she will join the ranks of those willing to stab in the back our best friend who is making immense sacrifices to protect all liberty-loving lands. To follow the deplorable lead of General Hertz.og ami Dr. Malan would be to condemn South Africa to the misery that has become the lot of France.— “Rand Daily Mail.”

"tn the winter months, with their short days, though the Navy and AitForce have an unceasing task, we shall have over two million soldiers iu this country who will lack, iu all probability, the soldier’s proper task of fighting. The evils of inactivity were felt enough even in the last war, for all its infantry battles. These lines come from, some reminiscences of 1915 published in the current ‘Army Quarterly’:‘lt is impossible to emphasize the boredom of the life we passed while we were at Steenwerk. Although we were only an inconsiderable distance behind the front line, yet we were not belonging to the war. ... It was a demoralizing life enough for the headquarters officers, but for the noncommissioned officers and men it was much worse/ Yet the writer was comfortably billeted and was not at a loss for recreation. If there is no invasion, with its constant calks on alertness, we must solve tbe difficult problem of occupying our forces this winter in ways to keep their minds 'at tbe ready’ ami as keen at tbe beginning of spring as they arc now.”—".Manchester Guardian.”

“Europe this winter will be a dreadful place. Tbe locusts, in lield-grey and Gestapo black, have swept across half a dozen once free and prosperous lands. The crops have been shelled or stolen, the granaries stripped, the cattle slaughtered or herded away to' the Reich. There is far too little fuel to face the sternness of a Continental winter. Think, then, of Europe as it was one short year ago. Remember Warsaw and Rotterdam as I bey were—aud as they are. Remember that delightful Exposition at Liege; remember Faris as she welcomed King George VI aud Queen Elizabeth in that bright summertime which seems an age ago; remember Prague at the last great Sokol festival. Where, was all that peaceful ami prosperous effort, there is now what Air. Cudahy rightly calls ‘a horrible hell.’ ’’—“Evening News,” London. * ♦ « High Sacrifice and Labour. We know the arduous strife, the eternal laws To which the triumph of all good is given. High Sacrifice and labour without pause, Even to the death—else wherefore should the eye Of man converse with immortality? —Wordsworth.

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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 42, 13 November 1940, Page 6

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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 42, 13 November 1940, Page 6

THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 42, 13 November 1940, Page 6

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