The Grey River Argus FRIDAY, May 4, 1945. BEGINNING OF THE END.

Grey River Argus, 4 May 1945, Page 4

The Grey River Argus FRIDAY, May 4, 1945. BEGINNING OF THE END.

The iiCAVS which we print this morning' is the best for more limn five years. .11 would, still he Ihp best if it meant and said only that the, war in Italy isover. It means and says much more than that. I n a matter of days now at the. most, hours it may be., the Avar in Europe will have ended. Tiie collapse of German military resistance in Northern Italy and Western Austria, and the hopeless struggle of the German forces in their homeland, almost completely over-run by invasion armies of the Allies, can mean no less than that; and, more than for any other reason, the news from Italy will be welcomed ■because'it marks the beginning of the end. After the bloodiest and most destructive war in the history .of Europe, the fighting forces have begun to lay down their arms, and, drawing together the

broken fragments of a peaceful way of life, men and women in one part of the continent at least may turn back now to the almost forgotten tasks of building up ii. places where for so long th°y have known only a breaking down. We cannot know what history will say about this war that is ending, hi our humbler moments avc may not car<> to imagine what aviso and good men in a saner age than ours trill say about us. We hope that the days that trill follow from now will show that the blood Aras not all shed and the suffering and destruction endured in vain. Millions of men and women in both the defeated and the victorious nations have died believing that they had not fought in vain. What they suffored they alone. knew. We of the Allied nation:; have won a great military victory. Soon that victory in Europe will be complete, and the men and machines that Avon it will. continue their job in the Pacific till it is-ended there too. When the dying and the kill-i ing are over ours will be the responsibility of making the peace, j It will be by the goodness and; wisdom of our'deeds then, by the’ merer and -charity we display, that we shall linally be judged.