“In the next war,” said President Wilson in 1917, “there will be no neutrals.” But the “next war” is now with us and there are many neutrals, writes J. B. Firth, in the Daily Telegraph. Those countries which are closest to the belligerents were the first to proclaim their strict neutrality. They are having a bad time, which will necessarily grow worse as the war becomes more intense. Not only are the neutrals menaced but neutrality itself. Indeed, one of the questions of the hour is: “Can neutrality survive?” Some, in fact, are asking: “Ought neutrality to survive?”
We are buffeted by the waves, but the ocean I ides flow steady and strong in our favour.— Air Winston. Churchill.
We have to absorb into the national effort the great body of men and women who arc employable. —Sir Samuel Uoare.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21576, 12 February 1940, Page 6
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