Down there all that the heroes can do is to die, but you by your firm and resolute attitude can give them what they deserve--victory. You have before you a Government which told you the very first day that it did not enter into power to negotiate without victory. As long as we are here the fatherland will be defended at all costs, and no force will be spared to obtain success. We have allies who represent the greatest nations in the world, that have decided to go on until success is certain, success which is near. The Americans are arriving for the final blow. The Living Line By HAROLD BEGBIE [By arrangement with The London Chronicle] _As long as faith and freedom last, And earth goes round the sun, This stands--the British line held fast And so the fight was won._ _The greatest fight that ever yet Brought all the world to dearth; A fight of two great nations set To battle for the earth._ * * * * * _That bleeding line, that falling fence, That stubborn ebbing wave, That string of suffering human sense, Shuddered, but never gave._ _A living line of human flesh, It quivered like a brain; Swarm after swarm came on afresh And crashed, but crashed in vain._ * * * * * _The world shall tell how they stood fast, And how the fight was won, As long as faith and freedom last And earth goes round the sun._ Brute Force Versus Humanity By MAURICE MAETERLINCK [Translated for CURRENT HISTORY MAGAZINE from Les Annales, Paris] The struggle of today is only a resumption of the conflict that has never ceased to redden the soil of Western Europe ever since its birth into history. The two chief episodes of this conflict, as everybody knows, are the invasion of Roman Gaul (including Northern Italy) by the Germans, and the conquest of Great Britain by the Anglo-Saxons and the Normans. Ignoring questions of race, which are complex, uncertain, and always debatable, one can, by viewing the subject from another point, see in the persistence and desperation of this war the conflict of two wills, either one of which succumbs for a moment only to rise again with more energy and determination.