NOT WALLS, BUT MEN.
“It is not walls,” said the King in his broadcast from Buckingham Palace yesterday morning, “which make a city, but the men and women within them.” He was quoting the Greek general Nicias, writes a correspondent. It was 413 8.C., and disaster was over the host of Sicily. Nicias, soon to die, stood before his troops, ready for the great retreat, and gave last words of exhortation. “Men make the city,” lie concluded by the blue waters of Syracuse, “and not walls or ships without men in them.” Under happier auspices, under no shadow of defeat, but with victory dawning, His Majejsty has quoted the Athenian’s last noble words.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 309, 7 October 1940, Page 4
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