CRUSADERS FOR FREEDOM
“ In taking our part in this war we South Africans are not merely defending ourselves, our country, our future." said General Smuts in a recent speech; “ we are also safeguarding that larger tradition of human freedom—freedom of conscience, freedom of thought, freedom of religion—which is to-day threatened as never,before in history by the Nazi menace. That tradition is the spiritual rock whence we were hewn. We have fought for our freedom in the past. We now go forth as Crusaders, as children of the Cross, to fight fcr freedom, itself—freedom of human spirit, the free choice of the human individual to shape his own life according to the light that God had given him. The world cause of freedom is also our cause, and we shall wage this war for human freedom until God's victory crowns the end.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24432, 18 October 1940, Page 2
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141CRUSADERS FOR FREEDOM Otago Daily Times, Issue 24432, 18 October 1940, Page 2
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