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ITLER has given spring a new H significance. Now, instead of bursting buds it’s bursting bombs. The shoots will be aaa and less tender. The land will stir and quiver but not with a new life. The spring of Europe will come in with a roar rather than a rustle. The mind of a dictator will strive to defeat nature rather than seek her meaning. But Nature is more difficult to defeat than Man. Hitler will be up against it in more ways than one. His spring offensive is offensive to all natural effort. Nature is on the side of natural propagation.
Ee a ee ee ee The spring of the tiger can’t compete with the spring of the crocus. The rebirth of evil hasn’t a chance against the re-birth of hope. The creak and groan of gun wheels can’t drown the rustle and stirring of daffodils and dandelions. But, to the Hit-Muss- mentality, such things are poppycock. Hitler regards this spring as either his spring-board to domination or his greasy-pole to damnation. It is said that he has made no preparations for 1943. Perhaps he won’t need any. Maybe he has a dim feeling that the fundamental decencies of men will be so reinforced by the fundamental decences of the earth that even the devil’s help may be insufficient to put him on top of the ash-heap. Russians know the earth. They know that all good things come from it and all bad things go back to it for purification. The Nazis believe that the earth is only useful for burying enemies in and that unnatural forces are the weapons of victory. But Hitler failed to win in the winter when Nature was awakening. Beware, Adolf! Nature, too, is against you.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 146, 10 April 1942, Page 7
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