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Great Britain's Achievement

A survey of Europe to- aim is world hegemony has have to be handed back.

cause which Great Britain de fends is in every sense the cause of freedom. That is thoreal significance of the magnificent participation of the forces of the British Empire in the victory of Bardia, The world has been wit ness not only of the unity of the British Empire, but of the under- lying principle on which that unity is based the principle of the free collaboration of free

and Colony of tho · British Em-

peoples. Nearly every Dominion been British sea power. How much more is that the pire is represented in the British day recalls the past. An old maxim-old, two case to-day, when it is not forces in the Middle East. Great Britain faces an centuries ago-laid it down any mere dynastic succes- The peoples too, of the man- that 'he who commands the sion that is in question, but dated territories, both Arabs and area of occupied terri-

sea commands the land.' a deliberately prepared Ger- Jews between whom Great tory unparalleled in ex- The series of brilliant opera- man plan to subject the Britain's enemies had for so long. tent since the days of

tions which have brought peoples of Europe and the fomented troubles have come forward to assist British arms; victory to British arms over world to what President and forces of the Free French, Napoleon. Yet Napo- the Italian forces in Roosevelt has called 'a New the Poles, and the Czechs are

Northern Africa would have Order-of tyranny." leon was defeated, and been impossible without the Great Britain's task to- British, who on their part are his downfall brought not command of the seas by the day and the calls on her Greek Ally.

By Robert Mackay

fighting side by side, with the

giving all aid to their gallant

All this means but one thing. If the British Commonwealth of Nations and all who depend on its undefeated influence in the world were to succumb, civilisa-

freedom itself.

It is on this vital point that

democracies have this in com-

only to Europe, but to British Navy, and without Navy are far more formid- tion would perish. Great Bri- the whole world and es- the magnificent collabora- able than at any past-tain's defeat would be the end of tion of the British mercan- epoch so formidable that, as pecially to the Western tile marine. It was the General Wavell, the victo- hemisphere, a new era of maritime element which was rious British commander in the British and American de- decisive in bringing to- the Middle East said in his mocracies see eye to eye. These progress, an era of poli-gether feeding and support- New Year's broadcast, the mon: they have faith in them- ing the land and air forces. situation at one time 'seem selves, and they believe in de- tical development, of

It is because of the supreme ed desperate' and even Great cency in international relations. industrial expansion and importance of sea power Britain's friends doubted It is for that reason that the British Empire can to-day count that all the Nazi land- her ability to resist. of economic prosperity. conquests are and must re-

on the moral support of the civilised World in But if, in the past six months,

fighting useless, not In his 'Precis of the Cen- main

only there has been a change in the against a barbarous system. tury of Louis XV' Voltaire strategically but economical- attitude Great Britain's which would reduce Europe to had written: "It is dan-ly too, as long as the British friends that is little short of slavery and annihilate smaller

Navy is undefeated. The amazing, the new confidence they nations." gerous to be too much a con- German General Staff, who feel in Great Britain is not due queror." What was true of are students of military his- merely to the growing success of

the British War effort. Far In a recent message to the the wars of the 1740's was tory, will doubtless be rather is it to be attributed to a Universities of Oxford and Cam- true of those of Napoleon, recalling the opinion of the fuller comprehension of the bridge, Harvard and Yale Tini- and is true of the Nazi con- best French military experts spirit that has inspired the versities said: "The dynamic British people in that effort... courage of Great Britain has won quest of so much of Europe of Louis XV.

the admiration of the world. . .' The world now realises what we express to you our confidence to-day. In all the great Even in the midst of the wars since the Renaissance glory of their many victories the free peoples of the Common- in the ultimate veterance wealth of British Nations under- ordered freedom for which Ox- the determining factor in they felt that sooner or stood instinctively at the out- ford and Cambridge stand." It the defeat of those whose later their conquest would break of war, namely that the is this 'ordered freedom' which

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all the peoples of Europe desire to regain and preserve. It is from the 'New Order of tyranny' that they long to be delivered.

It is because the British people bars the way to the permanent institution of such tyranny. in Europe that the Nazi regime will persist in its project of destroy- ling Great Britain by direct as- sault and by every other means in its power. But it is because the British people is gallantly waging war in four continents in defence of democratic existence. that the President of the United States spoke for all free peoples when he said that the people of America could not, and would not, refuse to help Great Britain and her Allies with supplies of weapons with which to wage war against aggressor nations.

"The danger to the British Commonwealth is the greatest, the most real, and the most deadly in its history," said the Australian Prime Minister re- cently. That is why the peoples of the Commonwealth have rallied to the support of the Mother Country. But the dan- ger is much wider. "The objec- tives of the totalitarian aggres- sors are not confined to Europe. These aggressors are determined to spill blood' in all continents, and not least in the American Continent." That was what a South American publicist wrote nearly three months ago. That wider issue is now. plain to every man of unbiased opinion, so that when in his recent speech to the American Congress President Roosevelt said that Americans were vitally concerned in the British defence of freedom, ho was voicing the sentiments of all lovers of freedom..

Undaunted, the people of Great Britain have entered on yet another year of blood, of sacrifice, and of toll. They are heartened in their effort by the knowledge that thoir cause is now understood. Their strength is their unity of purpose. Their resolution to. porsevere until victory crowns their, efforts. Is. fortified by the support which they are receiving In increasing measure every day from the friends of freedom throughout the world. For It is Great Britain's most significant achievement to have rallied to her side all the free peoples of the world.

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