REGRETTING LOST FREEDOM
PEOPLE have lost their freedom from time to time down thru the long centuries. But they have never failed to regret that loss and to strive to regain liberty.
The world has changed, the editors of “Das Reich,” a Berlin newspaper, seems to believe. For this paper is urging the people of the Netherlands and of Scandinavia to “cease regretting their lost freedom and be glad to join the German Reich …”
People are stubborn about things like that. They may be conquered. They may be held down by military occupation. They may be denied freedom.
But the longing for lost freedom is something that is not so easily removed as a pair of tonsils. It lies down deep in man, out of reach of the surgeon’s knife — or even of the bayonet.
Lima News (Lima, Ohio) Nov 5, 1940
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