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Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1925, Page 2

THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES A Chanced Kiuoi’K. “Since the Peace of Versailles, the face of Europe In’s undergone a change so radical that one who, like myself, has been absent for a couple of years, feels on his return as though he had landed in some new continent or lighted upon a different epoch. Time-hallowed landmarks of history have gone, secular institutions have become obsolete, empires and kingdoms that had weathered the most violent political storms have been carried away by the swc-ep of ungiiaged forces, and the maps of ten years ago are become almost as useless a.s those of the 16th century. This break is further reaching than most people are able to discern or willing to admit. Its causes, still operative, entail sinister consequences which cannot be staved off or modified without heroic efforts, and these the people interested seem unwilling to put forth.”—Dr E. ,T. Dillon, in the “Quarterly Be-