WILL TO CONQUER

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20096, 16 November 1939, Page 5

WILL TO CONQUER

ALLIES' SACRIFICE

BRITISH DETERMINATION

M. REYNAUD IMPRESSED

UNITY OF THE PEOPLES

(Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.)

Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Nov. 14. In a broadcast address, the French Finance Minister, M. Paul Reynaud, said he had come to England to dis-

cuss arrangements for co-operation between France and England in regard to the financial and economic aspects of the war. After noting that Germany was convinced that the democratic peoples would not submit to such great sacrifices as they themselves, M. Reynard said that in that Germany was mistaken.

“After a few hours spent in this country. I am deeply impressed by the unanimous determination of the

British people to conquer," he said. "Although as individualistic as the French. the British had accepted the necessary war-time discipline. Industry had adapted itself to arms, and in the interests of increased production the workers had agreed to the relaxation of trade union rules, while the taxation demanded was without precedent.

One in Every. Eight

Turning to the French people, the Minister said one in every eight was in the army and men were replaced by women in the fields and factories. Often but one horse remained in the villages, used in turn by all, while women guided tiie plough. Whole provinces had emptied themselves of old people and children, and Strasbourg, a city of 200,000 inhabitants, was now deserted and silent.

By reason of sacrifice and courage, the French financial position had been uninterrupted. France possessed today greater gold and foreign exchange reserves than at the beginning of the war. France had gone into the war with the determination to end the monotonous recurrence of war in every generation, and, with Britain, to ensure the triumph of liberty in the world.