“PLAY OUR PART”

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4491, 17 October 1941, Page 7

“PLAY OUR PART”

AMERICAN VIEWPOINT. “The most tragic aspect of this attempt to survive, alone on our continent, is that it would amount at best merely to sustaining life in a charnel-house. With Britain gone, with the bright lamp of English liberty extinguished, with all hope of resurrection denied to the little democracies that have contributed so generously to our civilisation and our culture, with the hobnailed boots of an ignorant and obscene barbarism , echoing in every capital from London to Athens, we should live in a new world, changed beyond all recogni-

tion. In this downfall of democracy outside the United States there would come, for many of our own people, a loss of faith in our own democratic system. Our confidence would be undermined, our vision dimmed, our ranks divided. In a dark, uncertain world we should stand alone, deriving from no other country the sustaining strength of a common faith in our democratic institutions. What would it profit us to achieve, at last, this perfect isolation? We have only two alternatives. We can surrender or we can do our part in holding the line. If we decide for the American tradition, for the preservation of all that we hold dear in the years that lie ahead, we shall take our place in the line and play our part in the defence of freedom.” “New York Times.”