CONIRAST M WAR AIMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 18, 22 January 1940, Page 6

CONIRAST M WAR AIMS

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'The words "dominating position" exactly express the goal winch from tjbe very conception of "Men) Kampf** 'lias been the objective of the Nazi leader and his henchmen.

It is to prevent Nazi Germany achieving that "donaiiiant position" anid the loss of liberty and everything that makes life worth living that Nazism connotes Jthat Britain and France have taken up arms on behalf; of Western civilisation. Lord HalHax^ in his speech at Leeds on Saturday, stated once more this very simple issue, probably the simplest^ yet most profound, on which any war was ever fought. The purpose of the Nazis was revealed to the world, he said, when within six months of the Mtoieh Agreement Herr Hitler annexe^ the rest of Czecho-Slovakia. So the real issue of the present struggle was that the basis of Nazi policy was plainly force. Herr Hitler had frankly confessed that in' his view the weak had no right, to live. Against that conception the British Commonwealth of Nations stobd, and so they had! the contrast of Germany holding down Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, anvd Poland by armed force and of the British; Commonwealth rallying to die cause with divisions of free men moving in from the Dominions. Lord Halifax then traced the progress of the war and the concentration by the enemy on methods peculiarly their own, especially indiscriminate warfare at sea with submarine and mine; To this aspect both Lord Halifax and, Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, in his weekend broadcast, referred with the assurances that means had been devised effectively to combat the menace. Both also spoke of the peace to follow war, a peace in whichj said Lord Halifax, Britain sought nothing for herself, but would insist upon the restoration of liberty to the small nations so cruelly, deprived of it by Germany. Mr. Churchill concluded eloquently:

The liberation of Warsaw, Prague, and Vienna is sure. The day will come when the joybells will ring again throughout Europe, when the victorious nations will plan and build in justice, tradition, and freedom a house of many mansions where shall be room for all.