BRITAIN NOT ALONE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 October 1940, Page 5

BRITAIN NOT ALONE

IN STRUGGLE WITH NAZIS WORLD-WIDE LEAGUE OF FREE PEOPLES. v REAL OFFER OF NEW WORLD ORDER. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 7. Tn broadcast address to mark the launching' of a campaign to bring home to the people of the United Kingdom the immense power of the British Umpire and the meaning of the Empire to its people in these days of trial, Mr Duff Cooper, Minister of Information, said it was necessary and right to recall that Britain was not alone in this struggle. The British people, he said, were members of a world-wide league of Powers which had built a new order based not on tyranny but on freedom, not on force but on goodwill. Referring to the contributions- made to the armed forces from different parts of the Empire, he emphasised that these men could have stayed .in their distant homes in comfort faraway from blackouts, air raids and the miseries of war. They chose otherwise—they and their fellow countrymen who had made up their minds that this was their war. Britain owed them a specially warm-hearted Welcome. The fact that their countries chose through their own democratic Parliaments to throw themselves into the fight was itself a tremendous challenge to our enemies and a tremendous encouragement to all who believed in freedom and democracy as the basis of international order. “It is we of the British Commonwealth, not the apostles of Nazi and Fascist dictatorship, who are able to offer the world a real new order,” Mr Cooper said. “The new order embodied in the Commonwealth has room for the aspiration of every country and race sheltering under it. It is not based on domination and the crack of the whip, but on the freedom of men and nations. We should regard Britain not so much as a fortress as an outpost of the Empire carrying the light of civilisation and defying the powers of darkness.”