The Task of the Allies.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1939, Page 2

The Task of the Allies.

The forces against which we are engaged believe that "might is right” and that there is no other right, writes the vicar of Leeds in the Yorkshire Post. They believe that truth, liberty and mutual regard may be sacrificed to the claims of the strong to dominate the weak. Our immediate task is to overthrow the present regime in Germany which holds that belief. Our ultimate task is a far harder one. It is to build up a new and better order, and not merely to restore the old order out of which Nazism has grown. Il will be impossible to build it without the cooperation of all the nations, including Germany. If the war makes us hate, if it leaves us vindictive, if because of it faith in God and His good purposes becomes weaker, then, whatever the actual result of Hie war. the evil thing which we are fighting will have beaten us. It is urgently necessary, not only, or even chiefly, that the morale of our people should be strengthened for war. but that the spiritual forces of faith, hope and love should be set free to do the constructive work of making God’s world what God means it to be.