EMPIRE WAR EFFORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1940, Page 5

EMPIRE WAR EFFORT

FULL CALL ON RESOURCES NEEDED SPEECH BY MR. ANTHONY EDEN. TIME HAS TO BE HARNESSED. (British Official Wireless.) I RUGBY, May 1. The world had never witnessed a more inspiring response than that voluntarily given by the free nations of Ihe British Empire from the first days of the war, said the Dominions (Secretary Mr Anthony Eden, in a speech in London. He added that he had never made any concealment of his own conviction that the enemy was truly formidable. The Prussian military machine had always been highly organised and perfected to the last detail. “Faced with a powerful and ruthless enemy, we, on our side, have certain material advantages,” he said. “Our resources, and those of our Allies and the Dominions, are infinitely greater than those of our enemy. But it is not enough to be content with the existence of these great resources and to repeat that time is on our side. Time has to be harnessed. We have to marshal our resources rapidly and vigorously. Nothing' less than the greatest effort of which our people are capable will ensure victory.”