THE ALLIES’ TASK

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4232, 17 January 1940, Page 2

THE ALLIES’ TASK

DR INGE ON WAR AIMS. “As for the war aims of the Allies,” writes Dr W. R. Inge .in the “Church of England Newspaper,” “the typical German would say, they seem to be to deprive Germany of the form of government which she prefers and to force her to adopt democracy, which she does not want. The minds of the Allies, he would say,

are still in the nineteenth cenutry, the era of liberalism, democracy, Marxism, and class-warfare. I cannot help hoping, both as a Christian and a patriot, that the war will not be fought to the bitter end, and that we shall not cherish savage animosity against a nation which is still reeling under the effects of defeat, and which may before long again take its place as one of the leaders of European civilisation. I am terribly afraid that it may break up in civil war and revolution, which is probably what Stalin desires, specially if he can see France and England in the same plight.”