"OLD SAVAGERY."

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 11, 13 January 1940, Page 10

"OLD SAVAGERY."

Nazi-Soviet Challenge To World. FINNS' MAGNIFICENT STAND. vv'•]. British Official Wireless. /A v . '(Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, January 12. The rallying of sentiment among the nations in all-parts of the world behind the "magnificent resistance of the Finnish people is the theme of a leading article in the "Daily Telegraph,'' which | sees a drawing together of the nations as the outcome of the threat to the independence of the small States which Nazi aggression constitutes —aggression raised into a calculated system. The "Telegraph" says: "On a view of the European problem as a whole, we, find the same lesson enforced—there; can be no security without collaboration. Out of the close association of! Britain and Trance, and out of collaboration of neutral States, we may reasonably hope to build up a system which ; will - -replace the extravagant nationalisms of the last'half-century by recognition that safety and welfare are only to be found.Jn common action. "Hitler, has announced that his fight is against the old powers of a decaying world; which is the exact opposite . of the fact. Hitlerism stands for old-time savagery—that he should take who lias the power and he should v keep who can." • - • . - W