A FALLACY
NO DECADENCE. “To mistake for decadence the fundamental good nature of the British peoples is an old fallacy. It is one on which the authoritarian systems of the past have counted—and broken themselves on that miscalculation,” writes Lord Lloyd in the Evening Stanlard, London. “Napoleon I referred to us contemptuously as ‘that nation of shopkeepers’; the ‘nation of shopkeepers' rescued Europe from his domination, and St. Helena was the sequel. Kaiser Wilhelm II and his pre-war Germany proclaimed that we were ‘decadent.’ They found their mistake between the years 1914-1918. The same fantastic story that the British Empire is decadent, that our Ideals are tarnished, that we are unable and unwilling to fight for them is being spread abroad to-day—sedulous-ly cultivated by a propaganda machine the like of which .the world has never seen. An objective view of the British Empire as it exists to-day provides the answer to these calumnies.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 58, Issue 4187, 22 May 1939, Page 6
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153A FALLACY Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 58, Issue 4187, 22 May 1939, Page 6
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