FAITH IN FREEDOM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1940, Page 6

FAITH IN FREEDOM

NOW MEETING SUPREME TEST. “It is my belief —it is a belief which burns in the hearts of an ever-increas-ing number of patriotic Americans — dom will be fulfilled within our own that the hope of finally asserting freeday by the massed force of our own spirit.” said Mr Robert Sherwood, the American playwright, in a recent address. “We live now under a tremendous threat: we must be prepared every one of us to light it to the death. We must be prepared to fight for the one faith that matters to every man and.woman who believes in the dignity) of the individual; and we can be con- j fident of victory. Our common tradithousand battlefields, from Waterloo to lion of freedom has been tested on a Gettysburg: it is now meeting its supreme test on the while cliffs of Dover. It will survive because it is essentially true, and therefore indomitably strong. It is founded on the one conviction by which humanity itself can survive: the conviction that there j is Divinity in Man. there is honour in Man. there is genius in Man, there I is the capacity in Man for wisdom, for j tolerance, for beauty, for love, and I above all for creation.”