THE AMERICANS
IN PRINCIPLE AT WAR. “ In principle we (Americans) are at war with Hitler now. We have openly declared our intention to defeat him by aiding his enemy ” (says Max Eastman in an article in the New’ York Times). “We are united on this as few nations not actually invaded ever have been on a foreign policy. % The reason for this solidarity upon so unusual a policy, a policy of staying out of a war and yet winning, it, is simple. >We are for staying out of the war in so far as it is a conflict of European nationalisms. In so far as it is a conflict of social systems, we know we have to win it. “ This war is, if any war in history ever was, a war between two ways of life. You will not find a deeper contrast in all the records of men’s
battle-cries than that between ‘ Mein Kampf ’ and the speeches of Churchill and Roosevelt; and however little it may 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, Egypt and Assyria, Athens and Sparta, Greece and Persia even, showed no cultural contrast to compare with that between modern democracy land totalitarianism.”—
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4462, 11 August 1941, Page 7
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