Thursday, August 21, 2008
AUGUST 23 - THE JOAD DIARIES (1948)
For, with the Nazis at the gate, I had a sudden vision of what would happen in England, if England were over-run.
I saw that a Nazi victory would not be like the victories of other nations in other wars; that the Nazis would not be content to impose an indemnity, to rob us of territory, to cripple our trade, but to leave our way of life substantially undisturbed.
On the contrary, they would destroy utterly and irretrievably the life which, in the course of the last three hundred years, we had built up in this country.
I saw that a Nazi victory would not be like the victories of other nations in other wars; that the Nazis would not be content to impose an indemnity, to rob us of territory, to cripple our trade, but to leave our way of life substantially undisturbed.
On the contrary, they would destroy utterly and irretrievably the life which, in the course of the last three hundred years, we had built up in this country.
