LAST WAR RESUMED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1941, Page 7

LAST WAR RESUMED

GERMAN NEW ORDER NOT NEW. “The German new order is not entirely new. The present war is but the resumption of the last,” said Mr F. A. Voight, editor of the “Nineteenth Century,” in a recent address. “The armistice of 1918 was but a suspension of hostilities. The peace between the two wars was but a truce. The Treaty of Versailles was but an interlude. Germany has begun afresh there where her effort in the last war culminated, there where it was so nearly successful, just before it was frustrated by defeat and by the Treaty of Versailles. She has never accepted this frustration. She has never admitted defeat. She is going on now where she left off last time. It is just a year ago that she resumed her campaign in France and fought the ‘decisive battle’ which began in 1914 and had for its purpose the destruction of France as a military Power. It is only a few weeks ago that she resumed the Balkan campaign which she had to abandon, temporarily, in the last war.”