* * * * The thoughts of our people, and
of the German people, should be directed, not so much towards the actual condi- tions of peace, as to the sort of world which the eventual peace must safeguard. The destruction of Hitlerism is too negative an objective and the defence of democracy too worn and weary a watchword. We must make it clear to our people that we are fighting, not merely for our possessions, but for our lives. We must tell them in all frankness what would happen to us if Hitler won. But we must also tell them that our victory will secure not merely a new Europe but a new world. This country, when the time comes, will be prepared to make great sacrifices for a stable peace. There must, on both sides, be sacrifices of sovereignty, sacri- fices of power, sacrifices of resources. From this war there must emerge, in place of existing Nation States, some form of world federation. Failing that, we shall enter, within thirty years, upon another cycle of destruction.
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