How very different is the picture today of Britain's growing military might, The army itself has been expanded till we have at least 3,000,000 men under arms, and these men ate now well organized and commanded from generals to corporals, Our losses have been made good. We are powerfully armed with antiaircraft guns, anti-tank weapons and field artillery, which protect our town factories and our many wid flung naval and air bases stretching from Iceland. dowa the west and east coasts of Africa, along the southern shores of Asia to Singapore and Hongkong. into the Pacific Ocean.
Though the army as a whole has not yet stepped on the stage to play a great decisive part in offensive strokes which it will have to do "Again: h races the defence of our oppressed and "persecuted brethren is just and necessary. War for war's sake is a crime War is justifiable only if it is the sole available mens for securing peace. A soldier who dies for his brothers and in defence of the hearths and altars of his country reaches the highest of all degrees of charity Analysing real and false peace, Cardinal Hinsley said: "There are who cry peace. p ace when is no peace. These regard peace merely as a rest between wars, a temporary cessation of hostilities which shall provide them wih an Opportunity to mature plans for future conquests,"
Concluding he Cardinal urged all to struggle and fight that the peace of Christ might reign.—Reuter
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