1807 AND 1941
RECENT EVENTS IN FRANCE
The journal of Free France in London publishes from time to time ecstatic passages from the Vichy press on the delights of collaboration with Germany in the creation of new order, notes the "Manchester Guardian. There were similar enthusiasts for servitude in Germany when Napoleon was the master of Prussia in 1807. Their conduct provoked protest from Fichte which has now been recalled with great courage by a Norwegian writer in a Norwegian religious paper. Fichte attacked these writers for running the enemy's errands by speaking of the great world order under a universal monarchy in which the German people would take an honourable place. "Conquered we are," he said, “but we shall also be rightly despised if, with al! our losses, we lose our honour. This depends on ourselves. Let us give the French a picture of the faithful allegiance of our country to our friends." The world order to which Fichte would not submit was a less tcnible and less humiliating tyranny than the world order in which the Vichy press welcomes a modest place.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1941, Page 9
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1841807 AND 1941 Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1941, Page 9
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