DARKENED HORIZON
HITLER'S STAINED SWORD. “Those who take up the sword are said to perish by the sword,” said Mr Hore-Belisha, Minister of War, in a broadcast talk. “Yet there have been those, using this weapon, who have been entitled to respect. Alexander the Great was a conqueror, but he spread the riches of Greek civilisation to the Orient. Caesar was a conqueror, but he extended the justice of Roman Law. Napoleon was a conqueror, but he carried some principles of enlightenment with his standards. What boon does the leader of Nazi Germany bring? What iota of happiness has he granted even to Austria, a German-speaking people? For what will he be remembered? For his tortures; for his concentration camps; for his secret police; for his ignoble effort to spin Europe into a web of racial hatred and religious persecution. Only the defeat of Nazi Germany can lighten the darkness which now shrouds our cities, and lighten the horizon for all Europe and the world.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1939, Page 2
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