In guaranteed fast colours In the new order which Mr. Chamberlain has promised Europe, when the Allies emerge victorious from this present war, one of its essential features will inevitably be the restoration of goodwill between nations, and insistence upon the observance by all nations of their international commitments. It will in recent years that once one country "gets away" with a breach of treaty there are others only too willing to run the same risk. "That was allowed to go too far, and it is now only too clear that, if during the past ten years broken pledges had been dealt with in the way they should have been, Europe would not now be faced with the tragedy which now confronts it. The issue, however, is a straight one. In the next few months or perhaps years the question has to be decided whether the evil of broken pledges,' dishonour and perfidy is to rule in the world, or whether the good of honesty, faith and fair dealing between nations is to be vindicated. The forces of evil have definitely assumed the initiative, and they will have to be fought until they and the men wielding them. shall have been destroyed. There is more than words in the saying that the blood-thirsty and deceitful man shall not live out half his days. Evil may for a time seem to prevail but the lessons of history are that in the long run it destroys itself just as surely as the Hitlerian system is doing so now. All this may be small comfort to the Finns in the approaching hour of their tribulation, little enough to the Czechs and Poles in their time of persecution, but the democracies are determined that truth and justice shall not vanish from the world, and that the day shall dawn when there shall be retribution for the wrongs inflicted upon them, and an opportunity given them again to work out their own destinies as free and independent nations no longer fearful of the rule of might.
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