A copy of a poem entitled “To Youth” reprinted from the Sunday Times, June 22, 1941. The poem was written by Sir Robert Vansittart, late Chief Diploma…

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A copy of a poem entitled "To Youth" reprinted from the Sunday Times, June 22, 1941. The poem was written by Sir Robert Vansittart, late Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Government, and contributed to the Sunday Times on his retirement after thirty-nine years in the public service. It is a lament for the lives so needlessly lost in the Great War and in World War 2 which was current and a warning against the lure of war.