A NEW FIFTH COLUMN.
People in general are in danger of becoming fifth columnists to their own cause by giving too much thought to its imperfections, states an American writer. There are new friends of democracy to-day who spend altogether too much time on plans for making democracy really worth while after they have managed to save her from Hitler. Of course we must try to build a better world after the present crisis has been surmounted. But by harping too much on the better world to come we are \n danger of making people here and tlie”e wonder if the present world is worth fighting for. After all, in past history, when men have fought for home and wife and country they have fought for these things as found. They have never suggested that men should fight onlv for apartments on Park Avenue, for wives like Hollywood queens, and for a country with a 100 per cent unblemished record.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 75, 9 January 1941, Page 4
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160A NEW FIFTH COLUMN. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 75, 9 January 1941, Page 4
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