ANTI-BRITISH BLOC
The attempt now being made by Hitler to create a great Continental bloc as against Britain is, as we all know, by no means new. There is . the Napoleonic precedent which at one moment seemed likely to succeed on the same lines and by the same method, but Leipzig and Elba and' Waterloo and St. Helena determined otherwise. The vast and glittering Empire of Napoleon is no more than a memory, while the British Empire, his antagonist, still
endures and with added greatness
Britain also offers to the world an « example of a new order, and Hitler and Mussolini will find there is all the difference between a freely associated Commonwealth and a conquered and enslaved Continent." —Viscount Samuel, in the House, of Lords, •■•■;-
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LXII, Issue 17, 4 March 1941, Page 3
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126ANTI-BRITISH BLOC Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LXII, Issue 17, 4 March 1941, Page 3
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