Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-02-19 | Page 10 | The Spirit That Will Win

The Spirit That Will wil Win WinA WinA WinA A A BATAVIA newspaper estimates the value of oil fields in East Indies which have been destroyed to prevent the Japanese invaders from front making use of them at more than hal half a billion dollars The newspaper said the demolition at the huge fields in southern Sumatra was the largest voluntary sacrifice in the history of the world world exceeding destruction of the the dam by bythe bythe the Russians Certainly the Dutch in the East Indies have done a magnificent job of practicing the scorched earth policy so ably initiated bythe bythe by bythe the people of China and demonstrated by the Russians In all three cases the sacrifice of precious national wealth of all kinds has lias been of the greatest importance in denying aggressors aggressors aggressors sors the spoils of conquest and making more difficult further aggression Thorough-going Thorough practice of the scorched earth policy in China and Russia was a major factor in halting halting halting halt halt- ing the invaders of those countries It may maywell maywell maywell well prove of the greatest importance in halting halting halt- halt ing ink Japans Japan's conquest of the southwestern r Pacific It isn't easy to destroy the t the a things you have slaved for the for the accomplishment of years of effort to strip bare the land you hope some some day to regain It takes courage and the most ruthless sort of determination to win at any cost The Tho Dutch the Russians and the Chinese have given positive proof they have the spirit it takes to win If we in America and the people of Britain have that same spirit spirit spirit-it if weare weare we weare are willing to sacrifice everything even our cherished possessions and our lives then lives then ultimate ultimate ultimate ulti- ulti mate victory for the foes of aggression is sure