FREEDOM: THE PRIZE OF VICTORY?

Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 7, 5 February 1944, Page 4

FREEDOM: THE PRIZE OF VICTORY?

* X had rather have a col* 5 .. dicr that wl wßt fights for and loves what ho know© < omra# l • i IM 1644 it was an easy matter for a soldier to know what tin was fighting for - he was fighting for his FAITH and ha fought with to Sword of to lord# m IM 1944 to soldier fights with to Tommy Gun s he io not cure of faith# Xt io something tot depends upon an Involved chain of reasoning and io liable tu and up anywhere. HI BO far mi one can summarise our Sbith wo would say it is 1 in oescneo, to bo 11 ofc that mon and women ano reasonable beings tot toy arcs capable of living and working together for the common goodt that is to ass* umption on which we base our coil* ootlvc actions* HI TODAY wo arc engaged in the greatest example of collective action in oar his* tory» Th© object -* ITOEDOM TO LIVE THS WAY W HAVE GHOMtoThat briefly will be to booty# nil TO what extent will to average man benefit from to H booty ?J On return to civil life ‘.wt of t the pre-war liberties will be restored# What ole* ? lack Gibbs# •: when he was atod# said ib toughs V ' '

that Ato hard won freedom* . would moan w would bo fro tom toy war in twenty too years J Hl cannot be assured that' ho wills - ho cannot ho assured tot in 1956 ha will have a Jobs 'ho cannot ho assured that the H toodcm n ha nows ■■ enjoy a Qi thro© male a day# clothoe and housing will bo his In 1950. . yack is not the oftly mart# Now Zealand is not the ©My country# Ibr . ■any mon the to in a state of International lunacy is safer, simpler and happier than tho n homi M of peace and joy to whd&h they long to return* BtoUa but true* ill WHAT . ©re wo going to do about it ? Take what comfort wo can from tolling our children and ouraolvoH tot there always have ' boon wars and always will ba ; that it is not such ci bud thing anyway, because wo always to 0© uro wo going to bo honest and any tot no one wants war - wo why to hell have it ? And to that ora wo going add - no one wntia unemployment# poverty and norowmlndednoso buttiinto our 11 m Mtoihi ‘X# wo uro going to hoc to to© dam wo arc

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fighting for, v/c have got. to do something with it| wo have either to build up a vay of living we like, or like the’’way" that io pushed on to us* ” Freedom H io largely what wo allow it to to* f u ,|n II II W M M