BATTLE OF WATERLOO
(1815 A.D.): Finally, out of Britain, still quietly learning the lessons of history, still blun-. dering on to the goal of an Empire founded on sentiment instead of coercion, came Wellington; and for Napoleon and France came Waterloo. % ne * No battle since then has had any decisive effect on world history. There have been many wars, many battles, many quarrels, but of none of these might it be said, as it could be said of those others, that they decided between diverging courses of human progress. Perhaps the Battle of the Marne was an important part of the greatest war the world had known until then. But World War 2 is a measure of the permanency of the decisions made in World War 1. Now, or so it seems to us who take part in it, the world appears to be fighting another of those battles which will make history turn either one way-or the other. Despotism is trying again. Freedom is resisting again. It is the same story as those others. May it have the same ending, ;
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 63, 6 September 1940, Page 9
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