The Archive · 1940

Britain's Aim

Against this spectre freedom still remains our sovereign remedy for the ills from which human society is suffering. We envisage a free Europe, free for individual and nation, free in the sense of giving full scope for per~ nal and national self-development self-perfection, each according 10 his own individual lines. In that fundamental sense we continue on the historic train of human progress but we have also learned that discipline and organization must go hand -hand with freedom.

"The failure of the League of Nations was largely due to absence central control which could harmonies the freedom of each with the proper functioning of the whole of human society. We therefore aim at a society of nations which will supply this defect and will possess a central organization equiped with neces: ats Britain Ready in Egypt i-tank gun being manceuvres into position during exercises in the Egyptian Behind the gun is a special desert ammunition carrier.

Many of these guns have been doing good service in the fighting along: the Libyan frontier.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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