TIDE WILL TURN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 181, 3 July 1940, Page 2

TIDE WILL TURN

"WE ARE NOT DISMAYED'* % ARCHBISHOP DUHIG'S VIEW"We are praying that there may . be a turn in this war through the intervention of Divine providence," saicl Archbishop Duhig in an address to the school cadets and pupils of the Christian Brothers' College, Brisbane, the other day. 'We are not dismayed. We are hopeful that right in the end will prevail over night. "The Empire and the Allies were, I think, in quite as difficult a posi« lion in the last war as to-day, and then there was a sudden change in the fortune of war. "May God grant they will prevail again. "This aggression we are fighting against to-day has touched the lowest depths of perfidy, because it is aided and abetted by treachery,, by lies, by misrepresentation, and by everything that is base. "We have nothing in ancient or modern history to compare with the invasion, for the second time, of Belgium and the invasion of Holland, for the bringing of war upon innocent peoples. "At this very hour the Allies are fighting not only for their lives and countries, but for the preservation of our Christian civilisation. "They are doing battle against an :.nemy whose un§crupulousness is unparalleled in the history of the world, an enemy 1 that, in its mad race, has ignored all the sacred prin ciplcs of international war and, I would say, too, all the sacred principles of honourable human dealing. "There is one thing this crisis has done. It has brought us of all creeds closer together, because we have got only one aim at the present time—to save the Christian civilisation built up by our fathers."