NAZI SENTIMENT

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4233, 19 January 1940, Page 7

NAZI SENTIMENT

HOLLAND AND BELGIUM “It cannoit be said,” points out "The Times,” “that the tone of the Nazi Press towards Holland and Belgium has encouraged a feeling of confidence in regard to Nazi sentiments towards the two smalll Western neighbours. “For the world at la|rge it would be a greater blow to civilisation than any blow that has yet fallen in this series of (disasters. Holland has behind hei- centuries of independence

and a great tradition iof vigour and freedom.

“It would, indeed, be hard to find -a greater contrast than that between the Dutch spirit an'd culture and the •spirit and culture to which the Nazi system (reduces the life of man. The fate of Holland and Belgium concerns the Western lAlties directly and intimately as combataarts, but it touches closely the deepest interests of the whole world as a moral order.

“For these small States with their experience, their traditions, and their temper, have something to give Europe that Hitler with his vast armies and the largest population of the Continent under his hand cannot give her. The hard thing, said Burke, is not to make a Government but to make a free Government. If Hitler could gain his purpose, he aould give Europe the kind of unity under which Germany and her victims live.

“It is only by the constructive cooperation of the peoples that still cherish her great traditions that Europe can hope to find a common system of liberty.” (