WARTIME SAYINGS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1941, Page 6

WARTIME SAYINGS

CLASS DIFFERENCES BREAKING DOWN. MOST SEVERE TESTING PERIOD. “We are undoubted!}’ at last becoming the kind, of democracy wo ought always to have been. Class differences are breaking down everywhere for good."—Sir Hugh Walpole. “It is our freedom to talk things over in council or committee that distinguishes us from the animals—and the Germans."—A. P. Herbert, M.P. “The moral power of our people has never been higher than it is today after the most severe testing to which any nation has ever been subjected."— Right Hon. Arthur Greenwood. M.P. “The price we have to pay for victory has never been so high,' but since freedom depends on victory, no price can be too high."—Lord Simon. “The struggle must continue until those guilty of international robbery with violence are brought to the bar of international justice."—The Recorder of London.

“The issue for the trade unions is a simple one of survival or extinction. Hie fate of the unions in Germany and Italy shows that dictatorship holds no future for them. Trade unions in Britain are willingly co-operating with the Government, in accelerating the armaments programme, because all sections of the community recognise the need for establishing the greatest measure of unity against the common enemy."—

Sir Walter Citrine (in Washington). “Our war aims are for a free Europe, a free community of free peoples, so that wo can go forward to build a now world based on peace and social justice."—Parliamentary Secretary. Ministry of Supply.