EVERYBODY'S LIBERTY LOAN

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 127, 1 June 1942, Page 4

EVERYBODY'S LIBERTY LOAN

QNE day remains for siibscribing to the Liberty Loan, and all who v have not so far mado application for stock or bonds should carry out their plain duty to-morrow. This Is .not a Government war, it Is everybody s war, and nobody can salve his conscience by the evasion that he would contribute if a national Government had been formed or if another party had been in power. Our men are under arms, two hundred and forty thousand of them, including all auxiliaries, according to Mr. Nash and thoy can only be kept munitioned and supplied by willing sacrifice on the part of all who are not members of the fighting forces The self-sacrifice and devotion to duty of millions of workers in Britain has kept the invader across the Channel and the North Sea, and while they have been working an industrial miracle in gearing the country's industries to the war machine the workers themselves have contributed well over £1,000,000,000 to the war loans raised during the past two years. We are of the same stubborn fighting, and paying stock. No price can be too high to keep the raider and the invader away from this zone. The only thing which will deter him from the effort is the knowledge that he will face a ready and impregnable defence from a nation in arms. We cannot secure this without paying for it and It Is from the pockets and the savings of every one of us that that payment must come. The loan will not fail if every man and woman in whom there is a spark of patriotism or of love of freedom contributes to the limit of his resources. At the eleventh hour there should be a grim determination to see that our men lack nothing in the way of food and equipment which our money can provide.