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Dyddiad: 2 Ebrill 1915
Trawsysgrif:
THE LESSON OF THE FALABA
The sinking of the liner Falaba and the Aguila not far from the Welsh Coast should bring home to the population in this part of the country some sense of the nearness to them of the disasters of war—of how slight after all, in spite of our splendid Navy, is the barrier which protects them from suffering all the horror and misery which this world's enemy has inflicted upon unhappy Belgium. This foul act of piracy brings to a focus the picture of what it is in the mind of Germany to do to this country if any measure of success attends her in this great struggle. We say any measure of success because if Germany is not as a military power completely broken, if she is allowed to escape the "humiliation" that some wrong-headed people in this country are so concerned that she should not suffer, if she is permitted to make a peace wihch [sic] will leave her at liberty again to build up a great army and navy, she will later on wipe Great Britain and her people off the map. There arc no lengths of devilry in order to assassinate this kingdom to which she will not reach, and her resources and her invention in that direction are far greater than it is possible, we may hope, for a nation like ours even to conceive. Germany is a power with a mind diseased. The man who nurses hatred is a pitiful fool hatred of any kind is energy diseased. Nothing can justify hatred and fortunately it is a force which ultimately must recoil upon the head of him who nourishes and uses it. Curses come home to roost, and a natural law will probably abase to the dust any people which worships hate as Germany does to-day. It is a wretched and pitiful spectacle that shows us a great nation like Germany chanting a national curse and wallowing daily in the slough of malevolence and enmity.
It is not the duty of Britain, however, to concern itself about the morals of the enemy, except as they are dangerous to her own existence. If it is a mad beast whom we are fighting it is a beast of supreme skill, whose power to injure and cripple for ever this empire of ours is truly formidable. The fury of black hatred carries with it no sense of shame; there is no way of conquering it other than completely to destroy it. The great resources of Germany are supplemented by the energy of passionate and consuming enmity and it is only by supremest and most persistent effort that these will be overcome and that our Empire can save itself from annihilation. The lesson then is that every man must now and at once do all that is in him to help, and sacrifice everything to the one end of overcoming the danger which overhangs us. No tradesman, no farmer, no professional man—no man or woman must admit for a moment any sense of security. The danger is imminent and calls for the active resistance of all.
Ffynhonnell:
'The Lesson of the Falaba.' Carmarthen Journal. 2 Ebr. 1915. 4.
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