NO PROCRASTINATION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 224, 11 October 1940, Page 7

NO PROCRASTINATION

SPPED HAS GIVEN NAZIS AIX THEIR CONQUESTS THE BATTLE FOR BRITAIN! "Speed has given to the Nazis all their We know that not one minute will' be lost in prepare ing the stroke against ourselves. Therefore every Government department must do> to-day l what it had thought to do to-morrow, this week what it may nave hoped to postpone till,the following.' We do not need to repeat that Britain will carry the struggle on to the end. No true citizen ..of this nation has ever doul/ted, and il' any spur to our resolve were needed, it is given in our vow to revenge the sacril/ege done across the provinces of France. We fight for our homes. They now oeIcupy the position once held by the bridgeheads on the Meuse; they will not fall. Yet let us still in the hour of our extremity recall that behind these c-ssentiali points stretches a vast hinterland which is ours alone. The wealth of the seven seas, the resources of new continents, the will and ardour of free men the world over—these will come to our aid. If the last fortress holds, mankind is saved. Remember the answer to Leonidas: 'T'he enemy are near us," he was toftl. 'And we are near the enemy,'' he replied."—The Daily Herald, London.,