"A TOKEN OF FREEDOM"
HILDREN bound for the United States receive copies of a book specially produced to commemorate their departure from Great Britain. It is "A Token of Freedom," a short version of Sir Bruce Richmond’s anthology, "The Pattern of Freedom," and the Americans-in-Britain Outpost of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies has undertaken to present a copy to each child either as he embarks or after he arrives at his wartime home. No adult may buy or beg one; but parents may subscribe towards the cost of production and postage. To prevent any illicit ownership, the child’s name and age will be inscribed on a book-plate which proclaims that the book was given to its youthful owner "by someone who loved these words and knew what they meant and knew why I must cherish them and hold them sacred so long as I live." Above, the figure of Britannia is shown handing over a boy and girl to the care of Liberty. The foreword tells the child that he is going "for a little while to a country where every child learns by heart at least one of the things in this book: the words of Lincoln at Gettysburg." The stirring words of Pericles to the Athenians, part of the Magna Carta, quotations from Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Pitt, Wordsworth, and others-all of them variations on the idea of freedom-fill the sixty pages.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 79, 27 December 1940, Page 2
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240"A TOKEN OF FREEDOM" New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 79, 27 December 1940, Page 2
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