A NOBLE CAUSE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 April 1941, Page 6

A NOBLE CAUSE

MR MENZIES DEFENDS AID TO GREECE

DIFFICULTIES FORESEEN.

BY BRITISH & DOMINION GOVERNMENTS.

(Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, April 22

The difficulties of the Greek campaign have always been understood by the British, Australian and New Zealand Governments, but it Avas felt to be unthinkable that Greece, who had fought so valiantly against the Italians and Avho was prepared to withstand the onset of Germany, should be left unassisted, said the Australian Prime Minister (Mr Menzies) in appealing to Australians to stand firm. “Debates and recriminations about strategic decisions and tactical dispositions, the results of which are still being fought out, cannot do any good at present,”' Mr Menzies added. “I say quite bluntly that whatever criticism may arise in relation to our assistance to Greece it is nothing to the criticism we could justly have encountered throughout the Avorld if, having cheered on Greece for months and encouraged her in her epic struggle, we had then shrugged our shoulders and said that against Germany Ave could give her no aid and she must fight alone. Australians who had died in Greece had died in a noble cause.”