IN PEACE OR WAR
BRITAIN' LWIXCTBLE AXD
INDISSOLUBLE, MR. MASSEY THE IMPERIALIST. Received Oct. 10, 11:25 p.m London, Oct. Iff Mr. Mas sey, interviewed regarding the Dominion's • participation in . the W(ir, said: —"We have simplv done our duty to the .Motherland ami ourselves because we realised that our liberty and progress were threatened almost as greatly as those of the older communities. Mew Zealand is prepared to make whatever further sacrilices are demanded"
Referring to the post-war conditions, lie said he could foresee the day when the Empire's reconstruction would prove tlie supreme question. Patriotic and Imperial sentiments wouid not suffice. ''We need more clear thinking and deliliito plans, decisive and immediate action. We must utilise our materal and other resources to tighten up the inter-Umpire and Dominion relations, which preferential treatment would promote and We must erect impenetrable 'harriers against German postwar trade attacks. Then we shall stand before the world a united nation—Eritn in invincible and indissoluble in peace or war.''
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1916, Page 5
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163IN PEACE OR WAR Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1916, Page 5
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