BRITISH FIBRE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 217, 12 September 1940, Page 8

BRITISH FIBRE.

HITLER'S IGNORANCE. "Product Of Shame" Must Be Eradicated. Britieu Official Wireless. (Reed. 1 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 11. "Little does Hitler know the spirit of the British nation, or the tough fibre of Londoners, whose forbears played a leading-part in establishing Parliamentary institutions and who have been bred to value their freedom far above their lives," said Mr. Churchill, towards the conclusion of his broadcast. "This wicked man, the repository and embodiment of many forms of souldestroying hatred, this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame, has nov resolved to try and break our famous feland race by a process of indiscriminate slaughter and destruction. "What he has done is to kindle a fire in British hearts, here, and all over the world, which will glow long after all traces of the conflagration he has caused in London has been removed. "He has lighted a fire which will burn with a steady, consuming flame until the last vestige of Nazi tyranny hae been burned out of Europe, and until the old world and the new can join hands to rebuild the temples of man's freedom and man's honour upon foundations which will not soon or easily be overthrown. "This is a time for everyone to stand together and hold firm, as they are doing. I express my admiration for the exemplary manner in which all the A.R,P. services in London are being discharged, especially the fire brigade, whose work has been so heavy, and also dangerous. All the world that still is free marvels at the composure and fortitude with which the citizens of London are facing and surmounting the great ordeal to which they are being subjected, the end or severity of which cannot yet be foreseen. Unflinching; Courage. "It ie a message of good our fighting forces on the seas, in the air, and in, our waiting armies, in all their posts and stations, that we are a people who will not flinch or weary of the struggle, hard and protracted though it will be, but that we shall rather draw from the heart of suffering itself th* means, inspiration and survival, and of a victory won not only for our own time, but for the long and better days that are to come."