IN THIS WAR
NEED FOR OFFENSIVE ACTION “As a strategist, Mr Churchill knows the perils of remaining entirely on the defensive, and he has frequently reiterated the vital necessity of seizing the initiative as soon as it can be done. But this struggle in which we are engaged is not merely a military contest. We stand at one of the grand climacterics of world history, and it is two ways of life that are in contest, two philosophies whose implications reach, as no one has explained more eloquently than Mr Churchill, into every corner and aspect of human life. What is disturbing more and more citizens of this democracy is the suspicion that, in the Government’s mind, our way of life is purely on the defensive. If so, then the prospect of victory is a relapse into the blindness, the cowardice and the stupidity that brought us to our present pass. Then, indeed, Britain is an elderly and declining nation, making one last brave spasm of resistance before it yields.”—Lord Hugh Cecil.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4558, 10 April 1942, Page 7
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172IN THIS WAR Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4558, 10 April 1942, Page 7
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