TOPICS OF THE DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20956, 8 November 1939, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY

Abiding Verities “We must preserve our freedom. And we must at the beginning make clear our war aims—aims which a new and peaceable Germany can accept. This must not become a war of revenge followed by a punitive peace treaty. We fight to preserve great principles, not to destroy utterly the people of another nation with whom we would willingly be friends. The war will be fought with all our resources. Let no one in Germany think for one moment that if they throw down the challenge of war it will be confined to the East. It will be fought with all our strength in the West as well. And that strength is now very great. In war there is no glory; there are no triumphs for humanity. The glories and the triumphs which shine as lamps along the road by which men have climbed from the darkness of the forest are the triumphs and the glories of peace. Whatever the future holds, it is from those great principles of liberty, of tolerance, of kindliness, of reason, which are the heart of civilisation that we shall draw strength. For those are the abiding verities. They will yet shine forth again, whatever darkness falls, for a time, upon the world.” Mr Francis Williams, editor oX the Daily Herald.