VERDICT OF THE FUTURE
One of the interesting things we shall never know is the kind of verdict that history will pass upon our period. says the “Listener,” of London. The Greens and Trevelyans of a thousand years hence may perhaps see the war as we sec it, a struggle in the defence of freedom, a crusade against evil things. At all events we like to think they will. German historians may take another view—or they may not. Those who examine us under the cold light usually associated with historians may lay the emphasis elsewhere, dwelling less upon the merits of our quarrels than upon our inability to settle them as reasonable men. But whatever verdict history delivers, the scribes of the future will at least acquit us of having offered them a dull age to consider; they will, to put it squarely, have plenty to write about, and will hardly be able to complain that the spectacle of history during the first half of the twentieth century was unspectacular.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1940, Page 9
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170VERDICT OF THE FUTURE Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1940, Page 9
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