NOBLE CAUSE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1940, Page 3

NOBLE CAUSE

HOLDING THE BANNER HIGH. "To root out this evil Nazi thing, to prevent its pollution from spreading (o other innocent but weak nations and even to our own homes, to bring the healing touch of liberty to Poland and Czecho-Slovakia and to Germany itself is as noble a cause as any to which free men have ever dedicated their lives and fortunes," said the Liberal leader. Sir Archibald Sinclair, in addressing students upon his installation as Rector of Glasgow University. "Let us then hold our banner high, and not stain it with any taint of hatred or selfseeking. In fighting Herr Hitler's foul conspiracy against the principles and decencies of Western civilisation none can doubt the justice of our cause. But destiny will require something more—! will, energy, sacrifices in its defence. For it is a gigantic and hazardous enterprise Io which we are committed. Our Scottish forbears, faced by more terrible odds than now confront us resolved in the Parliament of Aberbrothock to continue the war for freedom ‘which no good man loses save with his life.’ You. their descendants, must not and will not fail in service to a cause even greater than that for which they fought so valiantly and well —the cause of freedom not for one nation only, but of freedom for every nation limited by the like freedom of all."