Collaboration in Europe

Abstract

FROM time to time in the past few months, reference has been made in these columns to the need for consideration of the reconstruction which will have to be faced after the War. The King, in his Christmas Day broadcast, referred to the new unity which comes from common perils and common suffering endured, and pointed out that we must hold, fast to this spirit of unity in the days to come, both in our own lives and even more among the nations. The Archbishop of Canterbury has stressed the urgency of reconstruction problems. Let there be no mistake. If they are given the time, the Nazis can and will build a new order in Europe embracing not only France but also those other countries on which their tyranny has in succession descended. That will not be an order for free men, and its basis, as Mr. Bevin pointed out in a recent vigorous address, will be the racial superiority of the Germans.