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Will of British People “We may well feel a natural reluctance,” says the Yorkshire Post, “at seeming to imitate the methods of the very tyranny we are pledged to overthrow. But totalitarianism, as we have come to know it in Germany, is far more than a method of government. It is the product and expression of a fanatical creed which ranks national power as the one supreme good and regards freedom and democracy as evils to be wiped out. Because we are now adopting the government methods of totalitarianism, must we be charged with fondness for the Nazi creed ? Only the shallowest thinking could make that charge. We shall disprove it by keeping our cause and our purpose clear, through the war and beyond. Nothing should now prevent cur industrial war effort from forging ahead by leaps and bounds. The Government has the power; the nation has the will. Not worry, but work. is. our duty now. Hitler means this to be a short war; he must learn that for us it has hardly yet begun.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21183, 5 August 1940, Page 6
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