NO HALF-WAY CELEBRATION
WE have no doubt whatsoever but that the great majority of people in this town and district will lend hearty envdorsement to the sentiments expressed by His Worship the Mayor, in criticising- the plan for Dominion-wide celebrations to mark the Italian surrender. No doubt the Prime Miinster was animated by the. finest motives when he planned the holiday and no doubt on the spur of the moment, when the news first came through the country as a whole was momentarily carried away with the feeling of pride, which envisiaged the- day of final victory in the. very near future. It required momentary reflection to realise that the automatic celebration of any victory other than the complete and final one, was but a hollow and exaggerated procedure which as the Mayor has stated was foreign to tflie British nature. Let us save our rejoicing' for the final overthrow of the Axis powers, when our celebrations can take on a lasting shape and be woven into the foundations of the cleaner and happier world to be.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 7, 17 September 1943, Page 4
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177NO HALF-WAY CELEBRATION Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 7, 17 September 1943, Page 4
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