WESTERN WORLD
“LOST FAITH IN OURSELVES”
“The German trouble became possible only because we of the Western World had lost faith in ourselves,” said Mr Herbert Agar, American author and journalist, in a recent address. “And we had lost faith because for many dreary years we had
refused’ to tell ourselves the truth. Instead of facing the troubles that were multiplying around us, we took refuge in big words, big words that were not associated with big deeds, big words that "were used not as a call for action but as a soothing syrup. So the day came when the syrup no longer soothed, when it made the
patient sick, and on that day the Nazi revolution of barbarism became possible. t Democracy is one of the big words that we have abused. Ever since ‘saving the world for democracy’—and then betraying the world to sloth and indifference—that word has been used to cover a multitude of crimes and corruptions.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4529, 28 January 1942, Page 3
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