“A LETTER TO AMERICANS”
“This war is, if any war in history ; life. You will not find a deeper con-! irast in all the records of men's battle cries than that between ‘Mein Kampf’ I and the speeches of Churchill and j Roosevelt. And however little it may i reflect the causes of the war, this contrast is a valid indication of the significance to mankind of its result. The conflict between Babylon and Judea, Assyria, Athens and Sparta, Greece and Persia even, showed no cultural contrast to compare with that between modern democracy and total“lf we are ready to make an open gift of all help to England because' we believe that free civilisation will I probably perish from the earth if j Hitler conquers, we ought als« to be ready, in case of certain need, to fight i by England's side.”—<“A Letter to: Americans." by Max Eastman, first j published in New York.)
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 14 October 1941, Page 6
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