THE BETTER COURSE.
« All the alarm docks in Europe are sounding. Two hours' flight in a fast aeroplane will take you to where bombs are raining from th'e gky," said Sir Ian Hamilton, in a recent speech. " Yet some sons of Belial are going about saying war has become impossible. Others — — bad citizens these — are announcing beforehand they won't fight, exactly as if a man in camp in a forest filled with wolves should throw away hi? gun and take off his clothes to make himself easy eating. The worst of all, however, are those who stick their heads ' out of some safe spot and make nasty remarks about foreign statesmen who are idolised by the mass of their own people. I make these remarks without any political bias, but I am sure that, whether you throw dirt at Franco or Moscow, or ostentatiously refuse to break bread with Hitler, you are equally bad Britishers willittg to endanger the lives of tens of thousands of young people in order to gratify your.own personal political spite. * Far better, if you can say anything ni6e, to say itx"-
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 19, 15 October 1937, Page 4
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186THE BETTER COURSE. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 19, 15 October 1937, Page 4
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