THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1746, sig. 109-4/1501

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English Translation

The High Commissioner of Canada today gave a speech on the London radio, in which he spoke about Canada's war effort. He also spoke about the reasons for the unity of the British Empire: Today we have almost as many men under arms as at the end of the previous war. Canada's war expenditures since December of the previous year are higher than the total expenditures of the years l9l4-l9l8. Superficial critics claim that the British world empire has played out. How little did they understand of the empire, which is not represented by violence, but represents a free community of free men. We hear the loud cry from Berlin about the New Order of Europe, What is so new about this new order? No human knows that. This New Order can take on a new streamline shape, but it remains as old as the tyranny itself. If the German military boots were to be removed from Hitler's subjugated states, what would happen then? The peoples would rise up against him, as they will one day do with our help. Our army is an army of free men, their army is a army of galley convicts. Ours is the New Order. - U08O1