PREPARED BY GOD

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3277, 18 June 1943, Page 7

PREPARED BY GOD

BRITAIN’S PRIME MINISTER TRIBUTE PAID BY SERVICEMEN So much are the thoughts of people on Winston Churchill at the present time that it was not strange that his name should have been mentioned more often than that of any other man by speakers at the Paeroa-Hau-raki Returned Services’ Association reunion on Saturday evening. r "■ el’s early in the evening did no; that the toast-list, drawn up days ago, contained his name, and the duty as the proposer, was entrusted to Lt.-Col. T. R. Dawe, who admitted that it was impossible for him to do adequate justice to the task. Lt.-Col. Dawe assented that Winston Churchill was another demonstration that Almighty God was, as usual, looking after the British Empire. Only thus could we have had such a man. The speaker traced the career of Mr Churchill in the Army, as a pressman and in politics, all of which provided the requisite training for the position he now occupied, for noone could have handled such huge forces and such complex problems without his whole career had been planned for him. In addition the man personated the fighting spirit of the British people. While giving due recognition to the leaders of the other United Nations peoples we should thank God that we had such a leader as Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill concluded Lt.-Col. Dawe amid prolonged applause.