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Ram an ia ’s Tragedy “ The significance of the recent tragic events in Rumania is that they are symptomatic. 111-governed as it was, till the emergence of the Iron Guard it was not a country given to disorder. The peasants are an industrious and gentle people, beneficiaries of a land programme much in advance of that of their neighbours. The worst lawlessness they have ever experienced coincides with the imposition of ‘ German order,’ and if this is a paradox it is also a portent of the difficulties ahead, not for the Germans alone but for all of Europe. Nothing is so contagious as violence. Nothing is so easy to destroy and so hard to re-establish as the reign of law. The codes by which society functions and protects itself are the painful growth of centuries of discipline, and when Hitler lightly scuttled the common law of Europe he opened the gates to the savagery that tears down all legality. If he is producing the unity that will finally destroy him. he is also undermining the foundations on which even his order must be built.”—Mits Anne O'Hara McCormick, in t he New York Times.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21361, 4 March 1941, Page 4
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197TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21361, 4 March 1941, Page 4
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