SURVIVAL SURE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 118, 17 April 1940, Page 7

SURVIVAL SURE

CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES. PREMIER’S FAITH. CONFIDENCE IN VICTORY. (United Press Association—By Eloctriu I elegraph—Copy right. A (British Official Wireless.) Received April 17, 10.20 a.m. RUGBY, April 10. In a brief speech to the Free Church Council, in London, today, Mr Chamberlain declared : “Every day that passes gives us some new demonstration of Germany’s utter disregard of religion, mercy, truth, and justice. If they , were to triumph in what they are doing, why then every fortress that has been built up by civilisation upon the principles of Christianity would go down and the world would relapse inlo that barbarism which only a little time ago we thought had been buried in the centuries of progress. It won’t go down! “Ordy a short while ago I declared I felt ten times as confident as I did at the beginning of the war of our ultimate victory, i repeat that confidence to-day!” Mr Chamberlain continued : “Germany has made many miscalculations, but none greater than this. This war will lie won by the spiritual forces of the world as much as by the material power of our brave defenders, and these spiritual forces have been affronted by what Germany lias done and is doing.” Mr Chamberlain said that after the latest outrage of those monsters of wickedness in Germany who seem to shut the gates of mercy against mankind, all his thoughts were occupied with how to counter that stroke.