UNITED PEOPLE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1939, Page 7

UNITED PEOPLE

BRITISH EMPIRE’S STAND IN WAR MR ANTHONY EDEN’S SURVEY. DETERMINATION TO END NAZI ANARCHY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, September 11. “Our conscience is clearand our memory long,” declared the Dominions Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, in a broadcast to the United States and the Empire. “We are a united people, more closely knit in a common resolve than at any other time,, in history. We are more united and more determined than a quarter of a century ago—if that were possible—when we pledged ourselves to fight for a good cause. We are fighting with one heart and one mind.” Mr Eden reviewed the events of the crisis and said “five times in 80 years German rulers have embarked upon agression on the slightest pretext against Denmark in 1864, against Austria in 1866, against France in 1870, against the whole world in 1914-18 and and against Britain, France and Poland in 1939. “Had Herr Hitler and his Nazi associates been honest and sincere they would have negotiated peacefully, but they preferred to ignore and deride their own country’s experience of the British character and embarked once more on the path of lawlessness, misery and bloodshed —the path of anarchy. “What the Nazi leaders should ask themselves is, what is the destiny to which they are leading the German people. Our determination to see the war through to the end is unshaken and we must make it clear to the Nazis and the German people that Britain has not gone to war about the fate of a faraway city in a foreign land. We decided to fight to show that aggression does not pay. “It is already evident that the Nazi Government seeks to delude the people with the thought that a quick victory in Poland will be followed by indifference and capitulation of the democracies. This is not the truth. The British people are ready to fight a very long war to the bitter end and rid the world of Hitlerism and all it implies.

“In the meantime, let the Nazi leaders heed the happenings in the British Commonwealth. New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa have each given an answer to the challenge. In addition to these great Dominions, India and the colonies have offered their aid one more. Britain stands armed and resolved with the sister nations at her side.

“Nazism is a passing phase, a spasm of acute pain which cannot endure. Out of the welter of suffering we must fashion a new world, better than a stale reflection of the old world bled white.”