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" N the present round, the Allies are taking a few on the chin. But, if we are not as happy as might be, Hitler and his colleagues haven’t got the makings of such a splendid illuminated address to present to themselves. Success, like failure, is relative. If you determine to travel a hundred miles and reach only fifty, you haven’t succeeded. If you proclaim that you are going to do the hundred yards in nine and three-fifths and then make out in only ten and one-fifth, you can hardly say that you are captain of your fate and master of your stop-watch. In warfare, especially, Success is the lady who holds the tape. A lot of things can happer before Hitler can take the world in his arms and shriek, "It’s all mine." He has to pull the cork out of the Caucasus. He has to get the oil to lubricate the squeaking Axis. He has to meet himself in Palestine and the Japs in India. In the meantime, he has to make Russia unfit for Russians to live
in. He has to ring Europe and square Germany. And then he would have the hardest part of all-to command loyalty, obedience, and affection by hate. No, no, Nanette! But, in the meantime, Allied prospects look somewhat blue in the face. But so they did in 1917, In fact, optimists were as rare as ten-course dinners in 1917. History doesn’t always repeat itself; but neither do onions. If the present is our darkest hour before the dawn, it must be Hitler’s lightest hour before the dark.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 160, 17 July 1942, Page 16
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