GREAT HERITAGE
FREEDOM, TOLERANCE, JUSTICE
"Since my childhood there has been in my soul a love of tolerance 'and justice, the great heritage of the British people and for which they are fighting and enduring with a heroism only equalled by their determination to win this war. Therefore I asked to be allowed to join the British -nation and having been admitted into your I am very proud to be British. You Avill well understand that Australia with whom I shared first happiness and then tragedy will always be my motherland, and I want to do everything within the framework of my duties as a British citizen to bring them over into our camp. Most definitely our great Prime Minister has included Austria among the nations to be restored and I cannot tell you with what joy my wife and myself heard those wonderful words? 'We do not forget the silent people . . - the Austiians, the Czechs, and Poles and even those Italians and Germans . . . who will prove to be a powerful force in the disruption of the Nazi system. While we were listening the dawn was breaking, dispersing the darkness —a symbol of our certain victory."—Sir George Franckenstein, former Austrian Minister in London.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 31, 20 March 1942, Page 2
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203GREAT HERITAGE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 31, 20 March 1942, Page 2
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