BATTLE FOR BRITAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1940, Page 6

BATTLE FOR BRITAIN

CALL ON ALL CITIZENS

MARSHALLING NATIONAL RESOURCES.

ADDRESS BY SIR KINGSLEY WOOD.

(British Official Wireless.) ’ RUGBY, June 22. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Kingsley Wood, broadcasting, said: “We have now entered upon the battle for Britain, and it is a battle in which, in one way or another, we will all be engaged.” The part which the citizen would be called upon to play was as important as that of the soldier, and already many striking proofs had been forthcoming of the willingness of citizens in industry, agriculture, home defence, and in the financial field to play their part to the full. Last week had been national savings week, and it had been a great success. The response to his appeal in the House of Commons last Tuesday for loans free of interest had also been highly gratifying. Within two days of that appeal the Treasury had received 949 loans, free of interest, amounting to £1,567.574, and more were coming in hourly. He then outlined' the big new national loan.

Discussing ways by which we can defeat Hitler, Sir Kingsley said: “We will certainly do so by marshalling all our resources to provide arms without stint to support us, not for defence alone, but to final victory and the attainment of the objects for which we entered this war.”