The Guardian
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1939. GREAT BRITAIN'S WAR OBJECTIVES
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When the British Prime Minister, on the outbreak of war, declared that Great Britain and her allies would fight on until Nazism and all that it stood for was destroyed and security once more restored to the small nations of Europe, he was giving expression to the Empire's main aims in the war. These ideals have crystalised since then and now with their necessary elaboration, form an integral part "of British and allied policy. When the time comes to once more talk of peace, it will be one which will be fair to both sides, and one which will be the foundation of a better and more secure social order. That this is so can be seen from the speeches of British political leaders and publicists.
"Let us at this solemn moment," said Sir Archibald Sinclair, the Liberal leader, in a recent speech, "set the goal of our endeavour clearly before us—not the aggrandisement of our country and Empire, not even solely the defeat of Nazi tyranny. Tyranny, aggression, and dictatorship have been defeated before and have sprung up again. We must keep before us constantly the necessity for constructive effort for the reconstruction of the new order in Europe, which, before the emergence of Nazi Socialism in Germany, we were_ beginning, slowly and painfully, with many setbacks, but on the whole not unsuccessfully, to build—an order based not on politics, but on moral law, in which freedom, justice, and equality of rights and status, and equality, too, of economic opportunity, will be guaranteed to nations, great and small alike."
Here is another, this time from Mr Francis Williams, editor of the Daily Herald, London's Labour newspaper. "This," he says, "must not become a war of revenge followed by a punitive peace treaty. We fight—if we do fight—to preserve great principles, not
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 89, 9 November 1939, Page 3
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