THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
; Thu Years Or Convalescence. “In the seven years that have slowly passed since the war. we have had time to reflect on the greatness of the loss and on the greatness of the danger that we >.o narrowly escnjed. Civilisation has survived after all. It-- power was expressed in the war itself, in the generous devotion of millions who cheerfully sacrificed all for the sake of many of its mildest ideals. But the exjmrience of these late cars lias driven in the lesson that the war ended just in tints, that ieeovery might soon have Ikrmi impossible and civilisation itself might have collapsed. Civilisation lias survived, hut the effort to reassert its aims and standards has convinced at any rat.? the chief belligerent nations that their common achievement must not he exposed again to such a risk. That is the significance of to-day’s ceremony. Germany, Italy, and Belgium, are pledging themselves to prevent by joint endeavour the repetition of the calamity of war in Western and Central Europe. Civilisation has another chance.” “The Times” (London).
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 February 1926, Page 2
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179THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 10 February 1926, Page 2
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