TOPICS OF THE DAY
To Discover Weaknesses “An inquiry into the collapse of France will some day be of great importance to both British and French, for it is likely to reveal just those weaknesses in the democracies which have given the dictators a long start in the present war and which must be amended, if war remains a possibility in the future. But this, if it is to be of value, must be postponed until the war is over and passions have cooled down. Otherwise it is only too likely to take the form of a hunt for scapegoats in which one group of individuals will seek to exculpate themselves at the expense of others, instead of being a judicial investigation in which all will be expected to account for themselves before an impartial tribunal. When that time comes, it may well be that we British too will be witnesses taking our share of the responsibility for what was a great common A. Spender, in the London Time*. S
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21409, 1 May 1941, Page 6
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