Article January 1, 1944 Issue

Signs of the Times

New Year

with contributions from Ronald G. Macintyre, Leslie Church, Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts

The Empire-Advance
Virden, Manitoba, Canada

The New Year is always a time of new resolves and new determinations. Perhaps, of all years in our history as a nation, more hangs on this new one than on any other. ... In this New Year we ... must declare our threefold purpose: to win the war, to secure the peace, and to build a new world. We reaffirm the destiny of democracy, a society of free men governed by God.

In a true democracy, change starts with the individual. He does not sacrifice the nation for his own selfishness, but his selfishness for his nation. Lasting total victory will be not only a victory of arms, but the victory of a new spirit. ... Democracy must be the expression of a great unselfishness, for that is the all-conquering weapon. That will mean change. Democracy will win the right to lead the nations again to an era of lasting peace—not only by armed might, but by a willingness to rectify past failures.

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