ESSENTIALS FOR VICTORY
"Till 1939 it was never clear whether the struggle was between two opposites whose protagonists were National Socialism and Communism or between tyranny and democracy. The truth was only rammed home into the minds of everyone but the incurably obstinate when Germany' and Russia revealed their understanding. The result showed that Germany had been more right about France than any lof us had feared and more wrong about Britain than some of us had hoped. In France fanatical faction had been suppressed in the spring of 1939 and unity imposed from above; but there was none of that essential unity of aim and purpose without which victory was impossible. In Britain the essential unity in regard to all the things that matter most to a nation had been there, beneath all the disputation, from the first —the love of rough justice, tolerance, liberty, consideration for the bottom dog, the cherishing of certain human values which spring from depths out of the ken of party doctrine. These things were the real antithesis to all that Nazi Germany stood for. There was no possible meetingground between the things that average Britons care for and the things that Hitler foists on nations."—Mr R. N. Scott James in "The Spectator," London.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LXII, Issue 18, 7 March 1941, Page 3
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210ESSENTIALS FOR VICTORY Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LXII, Issue 18, 7 March 1941, Page 3
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