Foreign News: What Are We Fighting For?

London's thoughtful Sunday Observer thought the time had come to be blunt. "What are we fighting for?" it asked out loud. Then, in answer to years of official "win-the-war-first-and-find-out-after-wards" propaganda, the Observer eloquently observed:

"This is the first age in which it has been openly regarded as wrong for a nation, a Government, a party, or even a newspaper, to have a policy. . . . Field Marshal Smuts, Lord Halifax and Mr. Lippmann are rebuked for saying, with more or less frankness, that a nation without a policy may perish. . . .

"War is politics. We fight for principles or war...

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