“THE MOST BENEFICENT COVENANT."
Mr Norman liirkett, K.C.. writes to the London Times: Ten years ago Air Winston Churchill wrote an essay in a volume of imaginary history. The Title of the volume was “If It Had Happened Otherwise.” I had occasion to refer to it after listening to the speech of President Roosevelt. One passage in particular was so striking that it ought to be more widely known. Here it is: “But these deep currents of sanity and goodwill would not have Keen effective unless the decisive moment had found simultaneously’ in England and the United States leaders great enough to dominate events and marvellously placed upon the summits of national power. In President Roosevelt and . . the British 1 rime Minister were present two diverse personalities which together embodied all file qualities necessary alike for prolound negotiation apd for supreme decision." Ten years have changed imagination to reality; and it is significant that the essay wont on- to describe “the most beneficent covenant of which human records are witness.” This was a covenant between the British Empire and the United States of America.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 153, 31 May 1941, Page 8
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