AMERICA’S DEFENCE
SACRIFICES BY ALL LESSONS FROM FRANCE The following comment on the sacrifices he considers Americans will have to make in the defence of their country is contained in a letter from the president of a great United States industrial corporation to his New Zealand agent:— “I am personally one of those who feel that everybody in the United States, capital, labour, employer, employee, generals and soldiers, is going to have to make social sacrifices, not social gains, to protect this country. I want to see all employeesjust as prosperous and just as financially independent as can be, but I am experienced enough to know that everybody has to sacrifice a good percentage of his income in one way or another to make his country safe. “I wish somebody would tell me just what good it did the worker in a French factory to get double time for everything over 38 hours a week, and all the other so-called social gains, when the Germans, who worked 50 or 60 hours a week, walked in and took him over. The Frenchman got his social gains all right, but he lost his country. The operation was successful, but the patient died.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21204, 29 August 1940, Page 9
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200AMERICA’S DEFENCE Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21204, 29 August 1940, Page 9
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