BRITAIN’S TASK
WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING. “In recent years we have been reminded that the only alternative to the organisation of an international order based on respect for treaties and law is a return to the methods of the jungle. With that we now find ourselves face to face,” said the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, speaking in the House of Lords. “In Nazi Germany the whole emphasis of the developments of the last few years has been to exalt the value of physical and material strength to the exclusion of all others. Science and learning have been harnessed to the production of everything that could subserve this gospel of physical force. Christian virtues and ideals have been derided, suppressed and threatened with extinction, and it is this gospel of materialism and the civilisation which must spring from it against which we have to fight. We shall doubtless suffer heavy material damage, but I hope we may feel confident that in doing so we shall save our souls, without which a man is not advantaged even if he gain the whole world.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1940, Page 2
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