UNIFIED BRITAIN

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 156, 1 June 1940, Page 8

UNIFIED BRITAIN

GOOD OUT OF EVIL. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright.) ( (British Official wireless.) llUGBtf, May 30. Speaking at a-n enthusiastic meeting on the Isle of Tlianet,. which is one of the districts recently made the subject of special protective measures, the (Jnder-Secretary of Air (Capta'in H. H. Balfour) spoke of the unity of the country, in the face of the present danger. The present Government, he said, was wanted by the country, and he described as a token of the insignincant past difference that those hitherto political opponents were now working in harmony as colleagues. Freedom, he said, had been given by the British people to the State in order that it be returned unimpaired, and secured by the overthrow of those threatening “Perhaps we needed some tremendous upheaval in our lives like this trial to bind us together as one community, instead of all of us leading sectional lives. Perhaps we needed the war to make us simple and purge us of prejudices aud over-developed material ambitions. I wonder whether this country, has ever been more united than on Sunday morning, when w-e had the Day of National Prayer and millions of citizens, led by the King, prayed that we may have help, to survive the dangers that surround us and wisdom in remaking the world when we have emerged from our ordeal, added Captain Balfour. LONDON, May 30. - The new emergency regulations impose a ban on all car radios and empower the authorities to seize printing presses and signalling apparatus, and also more stringently to control the making of uniforms and supplying of them to unauthorised persons. The War Office announces that steps are being taken to guard against parachute landings of men and arms in camps for prisoners of war or internment camps. . Sir Victor Warrender (Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty) states that all neutral vessels entering or recently entering British ports have been subjected to a thorough search with a view to _ the possibility of concealed troops. Eire has banned civil flying.