TOPICS OF THE DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21191, 14 August 1940, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY

Spirit of Britain Here in England we have Winston Churchill surrounded by men who, like him, will stick at nothing to check the German push, to defeat it and, in Mr Churchill’s words, “to rescue not only Europe but mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny that has ever darkened and stained the pages of history,” writes Wickham Steed. They know that this phase of the war is a race against time. They know that upon Britain depends the chance to shorten the whole struggle by winning this race or, at the very least, by preventing Hitler from winning it. The war itself we shall win in any event; but Europe and the world will wear another aspect if we win it swiftly. Many of us who, like Winston Churchill, strove for more than six long years to warn Britain of the danger that was afoot, have cast out bitterness and are giving every thought and effort to the work in hand. We know that our country must now pay the price of the years it suffered the locusts to eat. It has to work out its own salvation. Through this purifying ordeal it will pass. Human freedom, whose mortal peril it was slow to see, will not perish.