THREAT TO BE MET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1941, Page 5

THREAT TO BE MET

AMERICAN RESISTANCE d TO TYRANNY 1 COLONEL KNOX ADDRESSES j; NAVAL GRADUATES. . BRITAIN’S INSPIRING EXAMPLE. - , <ny Telegraph -’Pre*.* Association ■< op> right* •i tßeceived This Day, 100 n.tn.» NEW YORK February 7. Addressing a graduating class at the ■[.Naval Academy at Annapolis. Colonel H Knox. (Secretary for the Navy) said: ■‘"You are entering the Navy under the .•shadow of another irreconcilable wnd tliet. Unless we emulate embattled • Britain and say we had rather die J fighting a tyrant than liv.- under him. ■ we have not achieved the spiritual atItilude of the true defender of Amonqean institutions. The world has been ' given an inspiration from the example •jef the British people" Colom I Khi<x said graduates must •dxpeel to be called on to make saeri- \ fives for the defence of the nation, France. That body watches with eager cymp.ithy the successes of British arms and British policy. ' Who can doubt," the newspaper • "that it will prove to be a true France and that the new order in which Franee will take her place will m t be the N. 1.-1 -elf but a Eur- . J,.- ~r ' It .- a!’ . rerr.l m od<m tb.a-. Hilll _■> 'ai‘ f -ivs l.> de.jling a. Ith f* I .<*11 < are m .uaa.:;!.,!;<•<• alii the directu u"A clever conquercr will always if i possible impose his demands on the ccnguered by mst almrn t s, for a people, that makes a voluntary surrender saps it; own character. And with such a people you can calculate that none of these oppressions in detail will supply quite enough reason for it to resort cncc more to arm?.’’