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Hope of a Broken World “Britain today remains the last hope of a broken world,” writes Mr Hannen Swaffer in the Daily Herald. “On her and the peoples of the Commonwealth depend all the heritage of the past, all the liberties of the present, all the hopes of the future. If she surrendered civilisation would perish in Europe, and there would soon spread to the other four continents contempt for a democratic system that had proved unworthy, and belief in forms of government based on cruelty and force. “All the simple, ordinary, common people of the earth would then be slaves, the beast would reign, and the gangsterdom of the underworld be enthroned as lord of all. Have you still confidence in the stalwartness and the courage of our island people ? I have. Today, they are the most privileged race that ever trod the earth. For them awaits, if they will don it. a mantle of imperishable glory. For they caw become the saviours of all mankind.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21205, 30 August 1940, Page 6
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171TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21205, 30 August 1940, Page 6
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