Hilaire Belloc, writing shortly after the outbreak of WWII, examines the state of the war from a Catholic perspective. He explains why the Catholic has a moral obligation to support the war effort against the Axis Powers; not only because of the crimes perpetrated against the Polish and Jewish peoples, but because a loss for the Allies would mean the end of Western Civilization. Belloc also shares his shock at the attitudes of appeasement towards, and sympathy for, the enemy shared by some of his fellow countrymen.
