FIGHT FOR SECURITY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1939, Page 7

FIGHT FOR SECURITY

CiOVERNOR=GENERAL ON WAR ISSUES BROADCAST ADDRESS LAST NIGHT. NEW ZEALAND’S PART. (By Telegrapn —Press Association.) , WELLINGTON, This Day. In a broadcast speech last night to the people of the Dominion, his Excellency the Governor-General, x Lord Galway, said that one could imagine the struggle in the present war would be bitter. It might be long and it would involve hardship and suffering, but he was conviced that in the end right would prevail and out of sorrow and suffering would emerge a world of freedom.

“It must be clear to all that' our quarrel is not with the German people themselves, but with the form of Government which has tyrannised over them and, in particular, with one man —Herr Hitler—whose megalomania and ambition has brought about the war,” his Excellency said. After surveying the history of European relationships and the circumstances in which the present conflict origated his Excellency continued:— “It is our determination to restore peace and goodwill to these unfortunate people who have fallen under the despotism of Nazism, and, when the dawn breaks, we hope to bring to Europe a feeling of security, and to the Germany of the future, a home for true culture and freedom and peace. Blood and iron do not make for peace and happiness. The recent torpedoing of the Athenia recalls to mind the dastardly sinking of the Lusitania and the world-wide revulsion against German methods in the last war. ,

“Little imagination is required to picture two papers recently on Herr Hitler’s table awaiting signature—one expressing to President Roosevelt a denial that his Government had been responsible for the torpedoing of the Athenia, the other approving of the award of the Iron Cross to the commander- of the submarine for his outstanding bravery in sinking an unarmed and defenceless passenger ship.

“The events of the past two years are tco fresh in your minds to need any further recapitulation,” his Excellency said. “The lust for conquest drives Hitler on and on. Mr Chamberlain and the British Government have repeatedly had their patience strained to breaking point. They have done their utmost to preserve peace in Europe, but it was not to be, and the moment has arrived when the peoples of the world who wish to live in peace have determined to resist any further aggression and to take steps before it is too late to preserve their own freedom and Empire. "To this end the peoples of the Mother Country and of the Dominions and colonies arc required to play their part, and no doubt this will call for sacrifice on the part of each and all of us. The recent magnificent and immediate response of the young men of New Zealand to the call made for volunteers for the special force being raised by the Government is somethin? of which any country might well feel proud, and it is typical of this grea ? Dominion and its people. Many proofs of their loyalty and patriotism have been given in the past and in the maintenance of that spirit lies the surest safeguard of the peace and prosperity of the great Empire to which we are all so proud to belong. None of us is able to say how long the war will last. We only know that in the end we will emerge victorious. God grant that the day may soon arrive.