BURGLAR’S INITIATIVE
This capacity to strike any neighbour at any moment without pretext, quarrel, or declaration of war, is what Italian spokesmen have admiringly described as Hitler’s retention of the initiative, writes Lord Elton in the “Sunday Times.” It is the initiative of the burglar as against the householder, an initiative which any State which chooses to stoop as low as Hitler can acquire as easily as he, but which we are not likely to wish to dispute with its chief exponent.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 26 June 1940, Page 6
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82BURGLAR’S INITIATIVE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 26 June 1940, Page 6
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