THEIR COURAGE HIGH

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 57, 5 September 1944, Page 8

THEIR COURAGE HIGH

THE PEOPLE OF BRITAIN

Her Excellency Lady Newall, accompanied by Mrs. Walton,' attended a function held by the Royal Empire Soaety i* the Eng i h -SpeSg Union rooms yesterday afternoon She was received by the president, Mr L O. H. Tripp, and a member, of the council, Mr. R, C. Addison, an*a Mrs. Tripp presented her with a bouquet. After welcoming Lady Newnli iw^ Tripp spoke of tie courag? o f tife people of Britain. After five years of war their pluck and courage walthe same as ever ft was, he said A™ £?nan, writing to 'a woman woTef SL + the P^KJta committee in Wellington, said it was really wonderful toe way the people were takina the flying bomb blitz and ther spirit inorJ than anything, was a reminder of what the Empire was fighting for. Mr. Tripp also spoke of the wav the ?a7rfed Emo P nreH? O"ety 4 n LbnSfhad tou g hout Ith1the ltSwar inanifOld activities Lady Newall described a visit she whilst she was m London last year The society, she said, was certainly planning activities and representatives f rom ™™y Parts of the attended the gatherings. She was present at a luncheon when an address wa,s by Sir Robert Craigie, Bril m£i mbassador to Japan from 1937 to 1941. JAPAN'S EXHAUSTLESS MAN-POWER. He had declared that we should not take too lightly the vast preparations Japan had made for years. All of it had been bound up with the deeply conceived idea of her greater expansised that her control of the Pacific would mean a constant danger to Australia and New Zealand, that Japan had enormous modern factories a great navy, and a great air force Japan had vast reserves of men, and Sir Robert thought she would never £ c la?nio g in man-power. At that time, 1943, he had estimated that there were more than 7(1 divisions of men m training. MARVELLOUS ADAPTABILITY. On the return journey to New Zealand Lady. Newall said, the ship called at various ports of the Empire at Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, South Africa, and Australia, and always she was struck with the marvellous adaptability of the British race. Wherever they went, even in the tropics, they managed to have marvellous gardens; they took with them respect for law and order, and had the ability to instil it in others; they also took with them the powers of capable administration and retained high personal integrity.