"BRITAIN WILL WIN"

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 169, 5 June 1940, Page 4

"BRITAIN WILL WIN"

''This is not the time for a lugubrious graveside manner; we are not yet attending the obsequies of the British Empire/' said the president, Mr. H. M. Rushworth, when referring to the war in his address to the annual Auckland, provincial conference of the £Jew Zealand Farmers' Uuion. Mr. Rushworth said, however, that contrary to some months ago, none failed to appreciate that the Empire was at war and none failed to realise that the position was serious. This sudddn realisation had caused a good deal of mental suffering and in this connection he would say that it was one of the greatest crimes to spread alarm and fear among the people. "This is the time for an inspiring lead," he said. "We will get it sooner or later. Great Britain is fortunate in getting it from Mr. Churchill who is probably the best man possible. The very worst thing anyone can do is to ridicule fear or repress it. We must drag it out into the light of day and face it." Recalling black days from the Boer and Great War,, Mr. Rushworth urged that the trials and setbaaks of the present war should be faced fairly and squarely. It would take 18 months to two years for the Empire to reach its full strength, and it had only started. But tihere was nothing surer than that the British would win out ih the end. Meanwhile this was not the time for despondency, he added. This was the time for a cheery whistle, and the lilt of a marching song. Most warmly do we endorse the speaker's remarks. it,; s v• 11 "' ;,r; -'V' : 'i- 1 ■ >• •*'•. ■' / 1 i i