THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 29, 29 October 1942, Page 4

THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

Comments—Reflections

Don’t keep the milk of human kindness too long in cold storage. It's apt to decline in quality.—Anon.

“Our aim is to help all the nations In their fight to free themselves from the tyranny of Hitler, and then leave them to arrange their lives freely on their own soil in any way they wish. Our war aims are not, and cannot be, to impose our will and our system on Slavonic or any other of the oppressed European nations who are waiting for our help. We shall not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations.”— Joseph Stalin.

“What the infant League of Nations failed to achieve the United Nations will attempt to rebuild on deeper and surer foundations. We hope to build a union which no Hitler of the future and not Hell itself shall venture to challenge again. We shall not allow freedom, free men, the free human soul, the spirit of man itself, to be insulted again as it has been insulted and outraged in our day. This curse against human nature, this return to sadism and devil worship must be finally stamped out. For that we are fighting this greatest crusade of all time, in which the United Nations are enlisted, and this celebration of the flags in all free lands that are fighting today for freedom is a renewed pledge to persevere in this united effort to the victorious end.” —General Smuts (Flag Day address at Johannesburg).

“In the coming peace it will not do to make slaves of the Germans. We cannot imitate Hitler’s methods. Only the leading Nazis will have to be tried before a Court. The general feeling of hate against the aggressor will find satisfaction in the execution of the Nazi leaders. The victorious Allies will work in Germany without internment camps and without executions. I can forsee an active Germany, alive with the work of eminent scientists and technicians, of thinkers and artists, aGermany not excluded from international congresses, trusts, and sport meetings, and in no way hishonoured in world relationship. In 1918 the victor took provinces and left them arms. This time he should leave the provinces but take the arms. The last time the victors dishonoured the nation but left her self-governed. This time they should leave them their intellectual quality but take the government for the first five years out of their hands.”—Emil Ludwig, German writer in exile, as reported in Los Angeles “Times.”

“A United Nations invasion of Italy will not win that country for democracy, but if the U.S. and its allies would adopt a ‘more dynamic, active, creative policy’ with respect to Italy s future, fascism would ’be destroyed there and Mussolini overthrown in n few months.. Mere appeals for the removal of Mussolini will not do. The Italian people :»rist be given positive assurances as to their future, clearer and more precise than those contained in the Atlantic Charter. They must be given assurance that the peace they will receive will not be a peace of vengeance or punishment. • They must be made to feel that they will have the opportunity to choose their own government, and that the Italian frontiers will not be violated. They must be made to feel that Italians in the U.S.A, are not considered enemy aliens.. All such information will be spread widely in Italy.”—Count Sforza, former Italian Foreign Minister, and leader of Italian anti-Fascist forces abroad, speaking in New York.

# ♦ ♦ . ‘‘Prof. Arthur W. Hixson, head or the Department of Chemical Engineer-. Ing at Columbia University, speaking at a meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, said that industrial developments arising from wartime researches may alter the whole course of civilization. Manufacturing processes which had a stable existence in the old order will not be supported by the new economics. They will have to be greatly altered or scrapped. Competent authorities are convinced that the automobile industry has passed its peak. It is believed that some of the largest producers in the industry will not re-enter it. Many of the industries which depended largely ou the automobile industry will have to point their activities in now directions. The rubber industry will be very different in the future. Profound changes will have to be made in the petroleum industry if it expects to maintain its dollar and cents position in the American industry of the future. It will undoubtedly become more of a chemical industry than it has been.”—New York Times.”

‘‘lt takes the British a long time to get going, tout when they finally do hit their stride they are rather magnificent. That concentration of 1000 bombers over Cologne in the space of 90 minutes, and repetition of the feat elsewhere within three days is a stiking example. It took tedious, careful preparation, and it was a feat unmatched by the Germans. The full magnitude of the task of getting off that many planes and of bringing them back to home ports safely can be appreciated only by a railroad man who is familiar with the problems of a train dispatcher. In addition to traffic problems there are organizational difficulties, such as marshalling extra gasoline supplies where they will be' needed, aud the loading of planes at different airports with bombs, incendiaries, or the cameras appropriate to the task assigned to individual aircraft. The size of this job can be understood only when it is realized that it takes between 40 and 00 people—mechanics, armourers, and other humbler heroes — to get each one of those giant bombers off the ground. Yet when the job was done it was typical of the British that there was a modicum of crowing over the achievement and no gloating over suffering inflicted on the enemy, but, on the contrary, relief that Cologne Cathedral had been more fortunate than some of those in this country.”— From Raymond Daniell’s “Portrait of John Bull.” ' Come Summer. A million bees are on the wing, Miraged highways are shimmering, Oven-sweet is the breath of clover, The clouds boil up, the clouds boil over— Oh, take your jacket, wool or leather, And migrate with the colder weather! Leave me the parched air round my skin Day and night. It makes me kin To fruited tree and bearded corn— To centuries of farmer born 1 —Maude Barnes Miller.