THE SPIRIT OF BRITAIN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 231, 30 October 1940, Page 7

THE SPIRIT OF BRITAIN

STICK AT NOTHING TO DEFEAT TYRANNY FREEDOM WILL NOT PERISH' Here in England we have 'Winston Churchill surrounded by men who, like him, will stick at nothing to check the German push, to defeat it and, in Mr Churchill's words, "to rescue not only Europe but man kind from the foulest and most souldestroving tyranny that has ever darkened and stained the pages of history," writes Wickham Steed. They know that this phase ol" the war is a race against time. They know that upon Britain depends the chance to shorten the whole struggle by winning this race 01% at the very least, by preventing Hitler from winning it. The war itself we shall win in any event; but Europe and the world will- wear another aspect if we win it '-swiftly. Many of us who, like Winston Churchill, strove for more than six long years to warn Britain of the danger that Avas afoot, have cast out bitterness and are giving every though effort to the work-in hand. We know that our country must now pay the price of the years it suffered the locusts to cat. It has to work out its own salvation. Through this purifying ordeal it will pass. Human freedom, whose mortal peril it was slow to see, will not perish.