IMMENSE POWER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24424, 9 October 1940, Page 7

IMMENSE POWER

THE UNITED KINGDOM NOT ALONE IN STRUGGLE MEANING OF EMPIRE ■ Official Wireless) (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) RUGBY, Oct. 7. (Received Oct 8, at 7 p.m.) In a broadcast address to mark the launching of a campaign to bring home to the people of the United Kingdom the immense power of the British Empire and the meaning of the Empire to its people in these days of trial, Mr A. Duff Cooper, Minister of Information, said it was necessary and right to recall that Britain was not alone in this struggle. British people were members of a world-wide league of Powers which had built a new order, based not on tyranny but on freedom, not on force but on goodwill.

Referring to contributions made to the armed forces from different parts of the Empire, he emphasised that these men could have stayed in their distant homes in comfort, far away from blackouts, air raids and the miseries of war, but they chose otherwise, they and their fellow countrymen who made up their minds that this was their war. Britain owed them a specially warmhearted welcome. The fact that their countries chose through their own democratic Parliaments to throw themselves into the fight was itself a tremendous challenge to our enemies and tremendous encouragement to all who believed in freedom and democracy as the basis of international order.