OUR GREATEST TASK IN HISTORY
SPEECH BY MR. ASQUITH MUST MOBILISE AND ORGANISE TO THE FULL
(Reo. May 5, 0.30 p.m.) The Prime Minister, the Eight Hon. H. H. Asquitli and retail traders, stated that 260,000 out of 480,000 shop assistants llf r tary age had enlisted, also 170,000 shop-clerks and travellers out of 310 000 Personally, lie dissented from the view that the eravitv of fhk j not been fu ly recognised. The bulk of his count™ BriSSh Key the o G f d°4| ° r g ° aded bs ' rhet ° ric ' before bo Educed moro' pronip^and'unselfish!' 35 °to the ll na+ioir r,| yo r u*hav °^ )e{ ''? 11C0 magnificent beginning, and stemmed the tklo of agression. Procwd Tn tho same temper. lliere are still unused, and, to tho enemy, unsuspected rl sources which you must mobilise and organise to the fill]' ' re " "I am not ashamed to call myself an optimist. Not tliat I under r , t , prowess of the onemy, orthe gravity of the strugglo, but bccause I believe hrst and foremost, in tho righteousness of our eauso: next Wauqn T fl*i confident tliat we will leave nothing untried or undone to brin" our cause to a decisive and glorious, issue. There must not be <v man or wonian who at tlio end of the struggle, is not able to say: 'I was not idle in tho greatest task which, in the stoned annals of our country, has ever fallen to fto lot of
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2454, 6 May 1915, Page 6
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244OUR GREATEST TASK IN HISTORY Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2454, 6 May 1915, Page 6
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