Thoughts For The Times.
PATRIOTISM that stood the test. Now, what is patriotism? It is not narrow, selfish, unscrupulous, unjust. It was so in Germany, when Germans said ‘‘Germany before all.” And see the ,* result of Patriotism made in Germany. “Its net result,” says a writer] “is twenty million killed and broken men, incalculable damage and wastage, and the overthrow of the mighty German Empire.” We must have patriotism, of course, but not of that brand. If any doubt, let them consider what would have happened to us if that brand had prevailed. “Our colonies would have gone. The Empire would have gone save possible bare life and that would POt Lave- been worth living.” “So—thank God the khaki wall 'stood the strain.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1920, Page 2
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123Thoughts For The Times. Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1920, Page 2
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