NEW WORLD SPIRIT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 19, 23 January 1943, Page 5

NEW WORLD SPIRIT

OUTCOME OF THE WAR

Young men from New Zealand were in the fight for freedom in the far parts of the world, said Professor F. P/ Wilson, president, addressing the early settlers' gathering yesterday, and dust from many families lay on foreign land. It was hard to see the benefit at the moment, but he believed that the holocaust and turmoil would be for the world's good, as the French Revolution had ultimately been. The effects of that had gradually come to dominate the world, and it had led the world towards the light. Compared with it Napoleon's career was merely an episode. The slogan of liberty, fraternity, and equality still had its place in the world, in fact today we were really fighting for those ideals, which might form the keynote of the march of the present century. "We are up against the tyranny of a national pride, led by a fanatic drunk with ideals of domination," he continued, "'and it has pushed the world into war to fight such ideals." With Roosevelt and . Churchill he linked Stalin, who had proved himself a truly great man These leaders would in time give place to younger men. whose fight for equality and freedom would prove to be Hitler's unintended legacy to the world. Many of the men now overseas would come back with ingrained determination tosecure liberty and equality in their lives, and the certainty of the means of life, and these ideals must guide not only England, but South Africa and the U.S.A.. and even China. '•These ideals have already penetr"t?d Russia." he said, "but in Russia if is those win give their whole service to ihe Sfate who live beet. If v:^'?re to have ;• better wnrld we rrv.i.-t oerf^rm duties to the State and ■rt'.-t merely insist on personal rights On" does not require ' rights until one's riutv ii the State has been done If this results the world over I think that the war will have brought something good out of what seems at the moment a serious eviL"