EMPIRE’S SOLIDITY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1939, Page 6

EMPIRE’S SOLIDITY

♦ SWEDISH PAPER'S TRIBUTE. LONDON. October 5. In a leading article •’The Empire Lines Up,” a Swedish newspaper, “Uppsala Nya Tidning,” writes: — “The whole British Empire has now lined up on the side of the Mother country in the war against Germany. This will hardly come as a surprise, but that this gathering should have been so spontaneous and complete, and should have shown no hesitation, was. however, hardly expected. Above all Germany herself will hardly have anticipated this, because it has often been preached in the third Reich that the British world empire would prove at length to be an untenable entity, and the difficulties which the British have had to fight have been made use of in an unscrupulous way by Nazi propaganda. There is, however, no indication that the British Empire is built upon loose foundations. On the contrary, there is every reason to believe that it possesses to a very high degree the elements of vitality. The cause of the united gathering seems to be that where in the Englishman’s will for where in tthe Englishmen’s will for peace and a united opinion that the Empire finally has taken up arms because there was no other way out.”