THE OBJECTIVE
NEW AGE FOR HUMANITY. “The parable of the Good Samaritan has no meaning for us in international relations, and we still tolerate, and even approve, the attitude of the priest and the Levite who see the wounded man and pass by on the other side. The next stage in human progress is to discard the idea that self-preservation and national interest should be the only principles which determine foreign policy, and to believe that all nations, within the limits of their powers, have a duty to help actively to make justice, mercy and freedom prevail, and that the iniquity or the suffering of other peoples are not merely their own
concern but a disgrace to the world. Men must no longer feel only a distant and inert pity if bombs fall on Chungking or Helsinki or Warsaw’ or Rotterdam or Paris or London or New York, but feel as if they were falling on their own flesh and blood and hear in them a condemnation of themselves and a call to action. When that day dawns, we shall have grown a mind adequate to the conditions of modern civilisation and found an ideal more inspiring and effective than Hitler’s; a new age for humanity can begin.”—The Round Table.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4462, 11 August 1941, Page 8
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210THE OBJECTIVE Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4462, 11 August 1941, Page 8
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