UNITY IN FREEDOM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1939, Page 5

UNITY IN FREEDOM

EMPIRE CO-OPERATION IN WAR COMPLETE ANSWER MADE TO HITLER. NAZI FALLACIES EXPOSED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. November 11. Manifestations of the unforced co-operation of all parts of tin 1 Empire with the effort I lie Mother Country is making', gives cause for gratification, bin not for surprise in Britain, and affords a complete answer to Herr Hitler’s familiar denunciation of the British Empire as a conspiracy to reduce weaker people to servitude under the name of liberty, or protection. In a broad review of war progress in. the various parts of the Empire—in the colonies no less than in the great self-governing Dominions —"The Times" says: "That the role of the Dominions and colonies is at present auxiliary, rather than primary, is due, not to any subordinate station, but to the geographical accident that places the British Isles in immediate juxtaposition with the evil forces with which all are at war. ■lf Nazi aggression were to show its sinister head in another continent, no doubt one of the Dominions would take the lead in resistance, and Britain would secure the rearward positions. “Day after day news is always 'that the subject people' of the Empire offer of their own accord their various contributions to assist the- ‘exploiter. That this should be done in their own right and judgment by free nations, without the aid of Gestapo or Black Guards, must be an outrage upon the very axioms of Nazi philosophy. If Herr Hitler should ever read history of a little earlier date than 1919, he may some day discover that his conception of the Empire as a collection of enslaved peoples, all fretting to throw off their chains, contains a fallacy that has led other rulers of Germany to their destruction."