The world is again becoming a very dangerous place and how history has once again recycled itself.
Winston Churchill, they only politician who wanted to squash the illegal rearmament & territorial claims of Germany from '32 to 39 because of the innate evil of that dictatorship, was constantly ostracized by his pacifist colleagues as a warmongering buffoon. He stood alone amongst Britain, France, & the US in this opinion during the time where Germany could have been "nipped at the bud" with relative ease. We all know the cost of that idleness. The Western democracies are once again soft and comfortable...which breeds pacifism and the golden opportunity for rogue leaders, despots, dictators, & charismatics to stake their claim in the world scene with little regard to overall civilization.
December 16, 1939
Winston S. Churchill
"The final tribunal is our own conscience. We are fighting to re-establish the reign of law to protect the liberties of small countries. Our defeat would mean an age of barbaric violence, and would be fatal, not only to ourselves, but to the independent life of every small country in Europe. Acting in the name of the Covenant, and as virtual mandatories of the League and all it stands for, we have a right, and indeed are bound in duty, to abrogate for a space some of the conventions of the very laws we seek to consolidate and reaffirm. Small nations must not tie our hands when we are fighting for their rights & freedom. The letter of the law must not in supreme emergency obstruct those who are charged with its protection and enforcement. It would not be right or rational that the aggressor Power should gain one set of advantages by tearing up all laws, and another set by sheltering behind the innate respect for law of its opponents. Humanity, rather than legality, must be our guide. Of all this history must be the judge. We now face events." |
