GIGANTIC EFFORT
RESOURCES OF EMPIRE GREATEST IN HISTORY CHALLENGE ACCEPTED THREAT TO EXISTENCE (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Dec. >l3, 2 p.in.) LONDON, Dec. 12. The -Minister of Supply, Dr. E. L. Burgin, in a speech fo-day, said: “By any terms you care to employ, the Empire's war effort is -gigantic. Well might Herr Hitler have shrunk from being at war with the Empire. “We are under no illusion. We realise that our existence is menaced and threatened. We take up the challenge. “I believe it will he demonstrated that tlie effort which -Britain is making is greater than anything comparable in history. .Never has the (might of the Empire been greater, nor the fighting forces better or more adequately equipped.’’
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20119, 13 December 1939, Page 6
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