A NEW AND BETTER ORDER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 51, 10 December 1940, Page 4

A NEW AND BETTER ORDER.

“We entered the war in a much different spirit from that in which we entered the last war,” said the Bishop of Bradford, Dr. Blunt, in a recent address. “There was no cheering. We entered without exultation and without enthusiasm. We knew it would be a terrible affair, thought it was wickedly unnecessary and felt there had been very much wrong on every side, with tile policies which led up to it. We were grimly determined t° g° through with it. We were quite sure what wo were fighting against, but we were not quite sure what we were fighting for. That was a year ago, and it is now clear what we are fighting against, and it ought to become clearer what we are fighting for. We are fighting for a chance of economic reconstruction, to make possible a new order of Europe which will be really co-operative, in which each,nation will be free contributors to the common well-being of all — a joint stock Europe into which each nation will put what it can give and from which each nation will draw what it needs for primary necessities. W'e are. fighting not to save the. old order, but for a chance to get a better one.”