Education: School for Statesmen

Are Britons turning against the Atlantic Charter? That younger Britons may be was indicated by a recent debate at the Oxford Union—most famous sounding board of youthful English opinion. The Union's 1933 vote against bearing arms "for King and country" echoed round the world, is said to have persuaded Mussolini that Britain would not fight.

The recent debate, attended by 20 U.S. soldiers, was on a motion that "in the opinion of this House, it is not in the interests of permanent peace in Europe that the treatment of Germany by the Allies should be based on the principles of the Atlantic...

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