""WAR AIMS."

Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 6, 29 January 1944, Page 4

""WAR AIMS."

” WAR AM h cover a multitude of interests ranging from cockeyed utopias of world ragenoration to shrewd Jockeying for power and place after the war® In the larger sense the M Aims ” arc alleged to cover the national policies of future welfare® And wo are asked to believe that wo arc fighting for such aims, Five minutes consideration shows that the •* aims* M « tend to contradict each ether; that they have been thought' out in a period of panic; that they will be discarded when the serious buainoos io .over and that they arc limited in range by the imaginations of their sponsors. Pow.of the « aims ” have any bearing on the adtual warn: I THERffi are two alma only - lot us rootrict oursolvos to the Pacific - for which wo are striving® Australian, Now Zealand and American troops are vitally concerned with ( I) to kill the Jap before he kills thorn? (8) To gat the whole damn thing over as quick-, ly as possiblo and get back s to their wives and families - where the wife needs the companionship & the children the care and affoction of the father® In every soldier » American? Australian and Nev/ Zealand there io embedded the belief that his country is the best - place to bo and the best place to get down to ” war aims % Xn war there is one aim — to. kill o After the war comes the question g Ear what did we kill ? • Having killed . ■ him before he could kill us, what are we going to do now ? In the fighting we did not. know who would survive* In tho Peace arc we to know the « Aims H that survive? Are we going to know that uimo thny come to the fore wont stand investigating?! aro wn going to bo able to distinguish between open and covo w aimsV Wo migks as well be honest with ourselves - and our future loaders® u? IE wo ar a r going to establish M aims ” worthy of tho sweat, filth, wounds and death of th-s struggle wo tevo to keep both eyes open and stand fox no fooling? And tho first step Will be a thorough analysis of the "aims’’ What will they be*? Where will they iced. ? And who will bontfit ? Let us in a series of arbioXias try to sum up the implication o involved *• or aumo of thorn« Dot vs® next" wok ; > di scuse. PRHTiWBI $ THE PRIZH OP VICTORY.

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Transit , who amusingly paraded ths manners, customs and education of; Victorian Ideals® Whalebone z ? corsets which required a berculeanA mid to Ince, black broadcloth that gave an air of perpetual mousing and mousey little children who trooped obediently into church fetfhind Papa© It is difficult to •sajWur • u etorian grandparents would have regarded Sgt® Clouet on® But 16 is a good guess to any he would not have relished the iron bedsteads, sn - THIRD speaker for Works was Sgt® Jim Uralg who ranged over Victorian Art, Literature, Architecture and finally tattled down to the ideal of the Craftsmanship of the period) war* was an expression of creative ability. It was thing the modem man did not have* Wo could do with another William Morris* Wo could likewise do with Alma Tadema and Robert Browning* Modern homes also could do with a lesson from the good old days of a more stable homo life® n: CLOSING the ease for the negative Opl® anting , Transit, flung Karl Marx into the area and in Im Dutt after him* yrom the he wont on to riddculo Sgt 0 Crnig’a weeping for Art for • Art’s sake of tie long whiskered • 19th century* Tho art of the t period was one of emasculated pretties of the bedroom calendar variety® The stability was that of the smug, unimaginative middle •clans who were as dull as thi?dr furniture :J® Their charity was of the syrupy, condescending ‘ 4 sentimental variety that cost / nothing and was ft cop to their consaiaMtuni HAIM RS replies found both men in grips® F»K* ' Kerma saw red at nano of Maxx* * A revolutionary, how dare drag in that baoo fellow I Thio is a re apoctable debate ? 0, Xsod snarled at the nano of Bightin* gale - her ideals the ideals of eternity , 0 She was a tyrannical old lady® The audience toe joined in* And after cupper the subject was still under discussion when lights cut sent the lade to bed® It was a first rate night, >■ O r a» if « n h n H u