“GREAT SNOWBALL”
EMPIRE WAR EFFORT LORD MILNE'S EULOGY (British Oflicial Wireless.) Reed. 12 noon RUGBY, Nov. 29. Field Marshal Lord Milne, who for seven years prior to 1933 was chief of the Imperial General Staff, in a speech on the Address to the Throne in the House of Lords, declared that the great snowball of national effort of the .British Empire and its military efficiency was gradually but steadily gaining weight, and, if properly directed, would crush to pieces the German menace. This confident prediction followed a survey of the ideals which inspired Britain’s effort. Lord Milne recalled the unforgettable scene in Westminster Abucy at the Coronation when, in front of His Majesty, was carried the sword of mercy, flanked on either side by the drawn swords of temporal and spiritual Jjustice. Those' emblems stood for something real and tangible for dominating the ibelief of this nation in the quality of mercy and in our fixed resolution that- every man should be accorded justice in things spiritual as well as temporal. Those were the ideals for which this nation had drawn swords to-day, and ;if they had not 'drawn Hicir swords on this occasion the swords of pageantry would have been fbr ever empty baubles of no meaning. The freedom and liberty which we had fought for before were again at stake.
As a soldier of 55 years service under five sovereigns, nothing had caused greater admiration to him than the attitude of the country in the present crisis.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20108, 30 November 1939, Page 5
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