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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5601, 5 April 1943, Page 2

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DIVERSITY IN UNITY (By Whim Wham) American newspapers increasingly forcus attention on the problem of British and American relations, which were brought into the open by a recent leading article in “The Times,” London. The New York newspaper “P.M.” voices “alarm over the dangerous drift of American policy away from Russia.”—Cale news item. Though the Degree of Unity Attained by the United Nations Is good to see, there seem to be More than the merest Indications of Much remaining to be done Before their Hearts vibrate as The Points of View of People who Still suffer ,from some old Obsession The Russophobia of the Few, Still find occasional Expression— Lean Harvest of such Soil as grows The subtle Seed that Goebbels sows. It’s sad enough to hear such Stuff; But only Those of us will worry Who think that War can tame that tough Beast Human Nature, in a Hurry, And knock (as if for That designed) The Nonsense out of Human Kind. When Men unite to plan or fight It isn’t sure, it doesn’t follow, That A will think B wholly right Or C the Views of Either swallow, No Nation, lest its Hopes be blighted, Is anxious to be too United!