WIDE CONTRASTS
THE WORLD TODAY
BRUTE FORCE AND IDEALISM
SEARCH FOR FREER
LIFE
(British Official Wireless.) (Received December 2, 11.40 a.m.) RUGBY, December 1. The Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, referring in a speech at Reading University to the contrasts with, which the present generation is faced, said:— "Never in our memory has brute force held such wide sway. Would our fathers and mothers, who were brought up 'in the more liberal and spacious days of tolerance and humanity, have believed it if they had been told that in 1937 we should be forced in self-protection to provide gas-masks for babies? Liberty in many places has been destroyed, justice travestied, and intolerance tricked out as a "virtue. -. (
"On the other hand, there is tht startling contrast of a great and grow« ing body of idealism. Despite the world's brutalities—psrhaps becaus* of them—old and young are thinking more than ever before of a fuller and freer life in which the obligation! of citizenship would be more universally accepted."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 133, 2 December 1937, Page 11
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167WIDE CONTRASTS Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 133, 2 December 1937, Page 11
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