FREEDOM OVER ALL
BRITISH VALUES
ANALYSIS OF CHARACTER
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY .January 16.
An interesting analysis of British character is made in the Swedisn newspaper "Svensk Handels-Tidning," which says: "The dictators have under, estimated the English nation's courage and morale.
"The Englishman values his life as long as he enjoys unmolested individual freedom and can move freely among the people and say what he likes. Life for Englishmen without freedom is not worth a shilling and death seems easier for him than for others. If Hitler had known England he would have seen clearly that her capitulation must be preceded by the destruction of practically all her inhabitants. "Is it curious that England regards with the greatest confidence her ability to defeat the" invasion that has been so often postponed? The dictators have made a mistake about the English workman's view of the reasons of the war The Englishman knows what kind of life he fights for, because his Parliament and Government have not forbidden him to listen to the foreign radio and Englishmen see in t 1 •> German prohibitions an acknowledgment that the Nazi leaders are on errands which cannot stand the light jof truth."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1941, Page 8
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197FREEDOM OVER ALL Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1941, Page 8
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