NEUTRAL POINT OF VIEW
ANALOGY WITH OLD FABLE. The neutral analogy with the old fable seems exact, says the “Manchester Guardian.’’ The farmer gives hi> sons a bundle of sticks and asks them to break it. Each fails, but once the bundle is broken up the single sticks give them no difficulty. "Thus you, my sons,” says the farmer, “as long as you remain united, are a match for all your enemies; but differ and separate, and you are undone." The smaller neutrals, however, would wish to extend the fable. Imagine, they might say, a hatchet wielded against the bundle; true enough the blow will not cleave it through, but one or two of the sticks on the outside will be badly damaged if not cut in half. It is in this way that the small neutrals think when considering Germany, whom they all detest but fear to provoke. If they arrayed themselves unitedly against the common enemy of civilisation, not all. but one, would bear the brunt. Each of them is dismayed by the thought that it will be cast for the part of Horatius at the bridge.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 May 1940, Page 3
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189NEUTRAL POINT OF VIEW Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 May 1940, Page 3
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