WAR AS AN ARBITER
"It is ironic that Americans of all people, should be beguiled by the theory that war settles nothing. War gave us the chance to leave the British Empire. We took the chance and made use of it. War gave us the chance to acquire the Mexican Empire. We took the chance and made use of it. War gave the1 North the chance to jerase the slave civilisation of the South and to impose the banking and the tariff systems that suited the new industrialism. The North took the chance and made use of it. War gave us the chance in 1918 to work our hearts out for a better world for man. We neglected the chance and lost it. The record does not prove that war settles nothing. It proves that war settles exactly what it is intended to settle. It settles who is to have the charge of the immediate future. The war-" won opportunity is often thrown away; but one thing we know—if Hitler wins he will not miss his chance."—Mr Herbert Agar, in the "American Mercury."
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LXII, Issue 18, 7 March 1941, Page 3
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183WAR AS AN ARBITER Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LXII, Issue 18, 7 March 1941, Page 3
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