"LET US LIVE!"

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 218, 24 October 1916, Page 3

"LET US LIVE!"

"In all that Britons are and shoul be, the sea comes first," said Mr. John Galsworthy, speaking at Stratford-on-Avon. "The ancients dreamt of the Islands of the Blessed . We of thes'a green and misty islands almost believe that we inhabit them." A strange and abiding sense was love .or country. Though national reason might revolt, and life here be hard, ugly, thankless, the swelling love hao us fast bound. It was not our actual country, but its halo that we worshipped. He seriosuly believed that the foundation of the Briton's soul was the dumb and utter refusal to admit that he had been, or ever could b'A beateii, either by himself or any other. Already the cry on Doth sides vv£3 i: commercial war. Would those who had to re-make the world have ;-. large vision and see that vital all before else, was the seising of the chance that had never come before, and might never come again, to sc" up a Court of Nations,, backed up by force? Would they grasp the wis implicit in the feeling of the great dumb multitudes, "Pod God's sake •have done with it, and let us live?"