MAKING A NATION
STRENGTH FROM ADVERSITY.
The ancient have a saying: “Great difficulties make a nation.” How true this is! exclaims Marshal Chiang Kaishek, in a foreword to his wife’s new book, “China Shall Rise Again.” Out of her tribulations and suffering China will surely emerge a stronger nation. This is the conviction in the heart of every true :son of China, as it is also the belief of everybody the world over. “Any medicine,” runs an old proverb in China, “which does not make a man dizzy will not help him to recover.” This is one of my favourite sayings, which I often quote to encourage our soldiers and fellow-countrymen. Indeed how often have we seen men become stronger and more healthy after a dangerous illnes. It is even so with a people. Only by going through a life-and-death struggle will an old nation be reinvigorated. As with individuals, so with nations: without pain there can be no pleasure; and without suffering, no happiness.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1941, Page 5
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165MAKING A NATION Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1941, Page 5
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