TOPICS OF THE DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21369, 13 March 1941, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY

Europe’s Choice “ The only Europe that can flourish is one in which men have liberty to live their own lives, to develop their own ideas and pursue their own ends under a system of equal justice for all. But that is precisely the Europe that Hitler does not want and will not have at any price; the New Order that he envisages simply means the hegemony of Germany and the helotry of other nations, a privileged caste of Nazi industrialists between the Rhine and the Oder, and a depressed population of peasants in France and Poland working to feed their German masters. A generation of that, and the Continent would be back in the Dark Ages. Civilisation would not indeed perish from the earth, but it would migrate from Europe to America, Australia and Africa; and England, the last bastion of human liberty and justice in the Old World, would be hard put to it to preserve her independence—for many of her sons, like Cromwell three centuries before,, would be tempted to sell all they had, and migrate to other lands where they could breathe freely and without the constant threat of a tyrant and his Gestapo."—United Empire Journal.