WHAT THE WAR IS ABOUT
POLITICS OF HUMAN RACE
“Mr Menzies, the Prime Minister of Australia, said the other day: ‘This war is not about the politics of Europe; it is about the politics of the human race.’ In every war,” remarked Mr Vernon Bartlett in a recent address, “it is the habit to argue that your cause is good and your enemy’s cause is bad. But, if you think back to the number of countries that have been turned into slave States merely because they happened to stand in the way of Hitler’s ambitions, if you think back to the lies and the brutalities that have gone with each of those conquests, then this war does seem to be about ‘the politics of the human race.’ We are fighting out on a world scale that struggle which you find within every nation, every town, every village, and even in every individual. The struggle between two ways of life, between the aggressive, the selfish and the cruel, and the kindly, the tolerant and the unselfish.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1941, Page 7
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175WHAT THE WAR IS ABOUT Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1941, Page 7
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