FTER twenty months of war the enormous resources of England finds her the United S clf backed by but fighting alone in thẹ air, on land and on the sea.
She is fully confident of her own strength and of the moral power radiating from her great task: the restoration of freedom, justice and cultural pro- and gress throughout the world.
She does not request any oth her assistance t the increasing stream of war supply ensured. s from America of which she ca be safely -England does not ask for any more. Yet she should be given something else by her friends. her Allies and all freedom-loving men and women whose future and happiness depend solely on Britain's victory. She should receive an abundance of unrestricted confidence, and spiritual support in her arduous task. She should get the full-hearted co-opera tion of the free world's intelligentsia in the common fight against every form of compromise, neutrality and defeatism, Furthermore, England is entitled to another sort of contribution from her friends and allies, While she carries the brunt of the fight, they must make a creative effort tọ visualize and formulate the new democrati? order which will be needed, after the tyrant has been conquered, to save the world from future tyranny.
We all know that our present plight, that the outburst of totalitarjan nationalism itself, have resulted from our failure to organize our world in time on a larger pattern corresponding to the abolition of distance and the technical developments of our age. We need a new construction of the world and we čan only obtain it by ruthlessly exposing our past mistakes and b courageously exploring, all of us, in a free debate, the methods of conceiving and realizing our new order.
This, in short, is the programme of a group of free men and women of Allied and friendly nationality which the "North-China Daily News" has undertaken to sponsor by giving them a tribune for publishing their articles and unfolding their debate.
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