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Faith in Democracy “In the captive countries courage must still exist. We know that rnen have died this year for liberty in Czechoslovakia, in Poland, in Norway, in the Netherlands, in Belgium, in France, in China, in the tumbled mountains of Western Greece, in many a weary mile of sea. The whole earth, in the noble words of the old Greek who would be proud of his countrymen today, is their sepulchre. Though no monument can carry all their names, their fame lives for evermore. Shall we deny courage to the German fliers who come over London ? Not at all. They have testified their willingness not only to destroy and to kill but to die. But this courage of the free is a different thing. It is not madness. It is not a fanatical yearning for death. It is not personal loyalty to a leader. It is faith, a living faith in freedom. Is democracy degenerate ? Look around you. The gifted, the great, the h\imble, the unknown have given the answer, are giving it now, in their own h&auru' blood*”—New Yioris, Timas.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21373, 18 March 1941, Page 4
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186TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21373, 18 March 1941, Page 4
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