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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22471, 5 January 1943, Page 2

"The kind of world we are living in to-day is apt to breed a surface cynicism in thought and speech about the operation of the laws of life,” said Dr S. M. Berry recently. “There are occasions without number when there seems to be a positive advantage in lack of scruple and relentlessness. We speak of men being able ‘to get away with it.' suggesting that they can safely jettison their principles and yet conserve their gains. There is danger in that kind of cynicism, for at its worst it can almost persuade us that moral scruples are a weakening inhibition. and that to face the adversary on equal terms we must first of all adopt his creed.” "The personality of Marshal Petain constitutes the only link between the leaders and the people,” declares A. Arenstram in his book Tragedy 0/ a Debacle. “Between Petain’s Ministers and the people there is no link whatsoever. National affairs are still in a state of flux, the whole position is fluid. There is no question of the new France as a stable factor in Europe at the present stage. Everything depends on the outcome of the AngloOerman war. A German victory would galvanise the Fascist regime, and France could then be prepared to share the dismal fate of Rumania. But there isn't the slightest doubt that a British victory would sweep the present day French regime away like a house of cards.” All men are liable to error; and most men are in many points, by passion and interest, under temptation to it.— John Locke.