ISSUES OF THE WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 7

ISSUES OF THE WAR

SAME AS IN AMERICAN REVOLUTION

NAZIS' BLATANT CHALLENGE

FALSE DOCTRINE

(Britisb dfflcial Wireless.)

(Received January 19, 11.40 a.m.)

RUGBY, January 18,

Addressing an American Glub luncheon in Paris today, the British Ambassador, Sir Ronald Campbell, recalled the issues oi the American War of Independence and argued that the issues for which the Allies are at war with the Nazis today were concerned essentially with the same principles as in the American Revolution.

Britain and France, he said, were fighting to ensure that every freelyassociated coherent group—be it organised as large State or small, be it a minority in race or religionshould inherit security to enjoy "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness." In that the whole progress of. civilisation was involved. Towards that goal Europe had been striving through history, and now, declared r Sir Ronald Campbell, "at the very moment when it seemed we were nearer than ever before to our goal, suddenly that very principle is blatantly challenged in favour, I say, of a doctrine the acceptance of which would .reverse the whole current of history and would, indeed, destroy the very basis of international and private life—the doctrine that might-' shall be right." Dealing with reconstruction after the war,,the Ambassador said that^a new order must be raised on the foundations of co-operation and mutual help. In the benefits' accruing from it all the nations which were ready to play their part in good faith might expect to (Share. It misWUbe that agreements would be concluded between the British and French Governments by which they would go a long way to pooling their resources. This might prove to be the first, step on the road of a more generalised system of mutual help. .'"•'■ ' ■ '