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Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 December 1942Vol. XIII, No. 5

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p. 25 · Read in the full issue

And Shall We See A

Nwe Order?

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NZ, and is 80 years young, and wise I ?^ he W S y ? ° f m a letter what many of us are thmk _.A , . * am con fident the Anglo-Ameri can nations will come out victorious—but W ith an unlimited obligation to make the world a better place for common people to live in. There is a call, as never before, for wise and strong men, with big hearts, to lead us in world reconstruction. ‘‘The Almighty did not give this world to the millionaires and monopolists—they took it. And Hitler is trying to make everything safe for the powers that trample upon the bodies of the masses.

“Our . Governments can find millions f or the winning of the war. Can they, anc j w fn they, find millions, presently, with which to create a world fit for ordinary people to live in? <<j no t be here: but I shall go happily if only I can believe that, out of all this horror and suffering, there really wm come a new order in which my descendants will know peace, and happi negs and secur ify otherwise, God help them! In my lifetime, I have seen two generations of them (my sons and

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to pieces or hopelessly maimed, “Sometimes I see visions of the future world-a world governed by a new order a glorious world that really will be worth living in. It is a world in which all men will have certain fundamental rights—and among them a right to pro tection against the selfish hirelings of political machines and the prowling

hyenas of money-power.”

R.W.R.