MOVEMENTS OF DOUBT
NO CENSOR BUT HISTORY. Both Hitler and Stalin have stated that they recognise no censor but History. If this is so, says the “New York Times,” why do thej' go to the trouble of proving that Poland and Finland are war-provocators? By their own philosophies either they will get away with their piratical enterprise or they will not. What has responsibility to do with it? Or do they believe in their heart of. hearts that there is, after all. some higher tribunal than History? In.case Stalin fails in his raid on Finland, that is to say, in case History rules against him, is it in his mind to appeal to the moral judgment of mankind by arguing that Finland was “responsible”? Brutal, cynical, shameless in the gen eral texture of their thought and action, there yet break out in these latter-day Napoleons scattered intimations of something that suggests a decent respect for the opinions of mankind. But most likely it is only an anchor to windward against the failure of brute force.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1940, Page 6
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175MOVEMENTS OF DOUBT Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1940, Page 6
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