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NOW AND AFTER BLOOD and horror are forced in on us so lately at peace. Peace broken sends us writers and our brothers in France, into the catastrophe which has been our nightmare since we first heard from our fathers and elder brothers of what war is. History moves in its cycle of death and regeneration inexorably individuals are caught, held, and forced on in the birth and death of nations. If at the birth or the death we do not know. Nazi Germany was the death of a thousand writers, painters and musicians: Nazi Germany was a system under which it was impossible for people such as we who write for this paper, to exist. That system was to be spread in Europe. Those of us who fight in this war, fight a system that denied the conditions of our lives as writers (whatever else may be behind the war). Will our loud friends who told us our books would have been better if we had fought (Fascism) in Spain fight it now in its most flagrant form ? And those of us who shall come back, those of us who come through this war with enough of our limbs and reason, our fight does not stop when the last Nazi 'plane is shot down. Our fight will be against any establishment of Fascist principles in this country. When we have finished the war there are forces which will gladly set up such a system in this country. That is what we shall have to fight if we are to live. 7th September, 1939.