Winston Churchill recently referred to the "massive judgment" of Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts of South Africa. Last week this massive judgment challenged the United Nations to win the peace as well as the war. Speaking to a special assembly of Britain's Parliament, South Africa's soldier, philosopher and elder statesman said in part:
I call this a continuing drama because I view this war as a continuation of the last war; and the whole as perhaps another Thirty Years' War, which began in 1914, was interrupted by the armistice of 1919, improperly called a peace; was resumed with greater ferocity...
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