WORLD FIT FOR HEROES

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 30 September 1933, Page 14

WORLD FIT FOR HEROES

ia a speech at a dinner given by the Rhodes Scholarship trustees, General Smuts- mid (that after the Great War people Spoke very lightly about a world l fit-for hexo'ete, but they had since' had' occasion to I'augh ait that id/ea. Yet the world into whidh the Rhode’s Scholars were entering was a world .that offered possibilities for great adventure, anid such a world was lit for heroes. The old days of comfort, peace and security, and of golden' rules -to live by were dead and buried and those mow going out into the world would find it full of danger. “We have had our chance atnd perhaps we have made a mess olf it,” said General Smuts. “Perhaps only demigods could have struggled with success-

Growing International Friendships

through the trials we have had to endure. I hope you may have mare su'ecess than we have achieved' in the age through which we have lived. Thle world is becoming much (harder to- live in, but it may be in many ways a better world.

‘ ‘ I have a feeling that you will fluid it a frieudly one at bottom. We tihilnk so* miuch to-day otf -the antagonism ocf race to race, yet nothing hais impressed l me mlore in. Tcce'nlt years thaln the goodwill t-halt will universally -exist* among the .peoples of the -world. This friendly feeling is universally discussed among the nations, but .somehow it has not found expression under the old system of society which we have inherited from the past.”