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An Unendurable Evil “We do not always realise,” said Mr Harold Nicolson, M.P., “how unendurable is the evil against which we are now fighting. It is not only that Hitler and his confederates have for seven years been skilfully planning the destruction of the French and British people. When I contemplate the savagery of their attack; when I reflect upon the turpitude of their methods; when my heart is wrung with pity for those small but valued nations whose liberties they have trampled in the mud; when I think how the ambition of these evil men has spread death and fire over peaceful cities or over fields basking in the loveliest summer there has ever been; when I look forward with sorrow, but without fear, to the ordeals to which our own beloved country is to be exposed; I am filled with profound unhappiness that such wicked things should come to pass. But when I realise that behind all these iniquities is the greatest iniquity of all. the revival of cruelty and fear, I find that my sorrow and my unhappiness are but weak things in comparison with the surge of angei* which arises in my soul.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21204, 29 August 1940, Page 6
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201TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21204, 29 August 1940, Page 6
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