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PLAIN TALK TO AMERICA. “Everything now is indivisible. Peace is indivisible, War is indivisible,” said Mr J. B. Priestley in a broadcast to the United States. “Therefore, let nobody talk to you about ‘coming in’ or ‘staying out’ of this war. These terms arc clean out of date. .You might just as well talk about coming in or staying out of the air we breathe. We are all in it, from Greenland to Patagonia, up to the neck. If we are not fighting in it, then tlqat is either because we are indifferent to the future of the world and would just as soon be kicked round by a Nazi as live as a free man or because we feel that fighting is so unpleasant that we hope somebody else will do it for us. Except of course that some people, and this includes many Isolationists, refuse to fight simply because their minds are not living in the real modern world at all but are still thinking of a world that has ceased to exist. They are honestly mistaken, but as terribly and dangerously mistaken as a man who imagines that the scratching at the door comes from a harmless pussycat and not from a man-eating tiger.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1941, Page 5
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211OUT OF DATE TERMS Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1941, Page 5
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