THE SPIRIT OF ENGLAND

Evening Star, Issue 23685, 19 September 1940, Page 13

THE SPIRIT OF ENGLAND

“ There is a spirit in England which will never give in.” “ Wo are all delighted and proud to bo in England in her hour of need. Tho people aro marvellous, the way they aro accepting the succession of hammer-blows that havo been dealt out to them over the past weeks . . . but tbero is a spirit bore which will never give in. The spirit is in the

land and trees and churches as well as in the people. “ In reply to the invader s (Hardrada) question as to how much of Britain he would surrender, King Harold said seven feet, enough in which to bury him. That spirit exists to-day, and will enable this island to hang on until such time, as our resources, equipment, man and woman power triumph. And then when that times comes, I hope they leave the final invasion of Germany and the

smashing of Berlin to the Australians. If they do there will never be another Hitler or another Nazi regime.' . . I tell you that the spirit handed down to our forebears will win through. The spirit that prompted our people to go out to a strange land and carve out of it a nation is the priceless thing that spells ultimate victory. Churchill embodies that spirit. Ho is a man and a fighter. He has the people with him, because he is of the people and of Britain. It

makes one proud to be of the race, an£ to walk the streets with your turnedup hat and to know that people recognise you as an Australian. “ The people have given us * wonderful reception, and seem to have great confidence in us as fighters, and I know that, when the time comes, we will justify that confidence.”— Lieutenant Murray E. Robson, member for Vaucluse, in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, in a letter to his father, Mr W. E. Y» Robson.