STRAIGHT TALK

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 235, 8 November 1940, Page 5

STRAIGHT TALK

MR SEMPLE'S VIEWS THE STAND FOR DEMOCRACY In characteristic fashion, the ister for National Service, Hon., R. Semplc, at. flic public meeting lost Tuesday launched forth on an attack on the Dictators who had fore- - ed war upon an unwilling world. "I don't believe in invasion." he said. "To" me it is merely intc-rna-tional burglary. This is a war which has been forced upon the world. Great Britain did everything possible to avoid it. She even humilw ated herself in order to meet the - wishes of those countries who only know the law. of force. When the history of this war is written the British statesmen will- come out of it with clean hands. They knew what war meant—the suffering, the" destruction and the brutal slaughter.and they fought, like* tigers to effect a compromise. ; ; "Let me tell Hitler that the Englishmen prefers te light and will not be coerced. Forty-live million people have said to the people of the world 'We prefer to be buried in the ruins of our towns than to surrend- - er to the will of an invader. And it will be the same with New ers, Avho would prefer to die on the slopes of their land than have it under the heel of an aggressor. '•'Let Hitler say what he likes. We will stand firm and givp the same answer to bis henchman that yel-low-hearted dago, Mussolini.'"