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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 17 June 1933, Page 14

POSSIBLE SERVICE

New Breed of Young Men

©PEAKING- at Oxford recently, Mr John Buclian, M.P., said it seemed to him that there was an entirely new breed of young men about to-day, for they were willing to take risks; indeed, they hungered for them. They asked not an easy road to life, but a difficult one; provided there was a goal worth striking for at the end of it. If he was right then it was a fortunate thing for the country, for they stood at one of the most difficult crossroads in' their history. The whole world was hanging on to their coat-tails, and they seemed to be the .one stable and rational thing in an unstable and irrational globe. He believed the prestige of Britain to-day was higner than it was even in the time of Chatham, or in the days after Waterloo. It was a. great responsibility, but it was also a great opportunity, for whatever course the world was to take, they would have a large part in the shaping of it. The young man he was addressing had a chance of public service far greater than their fathers and grandfathers had, for so many of the old landmarks had gone, and they would have to chart out a new country. They would succeed if they were faithful to that essential English mind which was clear-eyed about facts' and a little chary of theories.