PEACE AND FREEDOM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1939, Page 5

PEACE AND FREEDOM

KING UNVEILS CANADIAN WAR MEMORIAL Message For All Generations and Countries SOMETHING DEEPER THAN CHIVALRY PORTRAYED. SACRIFICE HELD IN REMEMBRANCE By Telegraph—Press Association. —Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) OTTAWA, May 21. The Australian Associated Press special representative at the unveiling of the Canadian National War Memorial reports that the King said: “This memorial does more than commemorate a great event in the past. It has a message for all generations and for all countries —the message which called forth Canada’s response. Not by chance do the crowning figures of Peace and Freedom appear side by side. Peace and freedom cannot long be separated. It is well we have in one world capital a visible reminder of so great a truth. Without freedom there can be no enduring peace and without peace no enduring freedom.” Earlier in the address his Majesty said: “The time and place of today’s ceremony are not without significance ... The memorial speaks to the world of Canada’s heart. Its symbolism has been beautifully adapted to this great end. It has been well named ‘ ‘ The Response. ’ ’ One sees at a glance the answer made by Canada when the world’s peace was broken and freedom threatened ... But the symbolism of the memorial is even more profound; something deeper than chivalry is por- * trayed. It is the spontaneous response to the voice of the nation’s conscience. The very soul of the nation is here revealed. Surmounting the arch, through which the armed forces of the nation are pressing onward, are the figures of Peace and Freedom. To win peace and secure freedom Canada’s sons and daughters enrolled during the Great War. For the cause of peace and freedom sixty thousand Canadians gave their lives and a still larger number suffered impairment of body or mind. This sacrifice the National Memorial holds in remembrance for our own and succeeding generations.”