DELIVERIES TO BRITAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1941, Page 5

DELIVERIES TO BRITAIN

“Our patrols are helping now to insure the delivery of needed supplies to Britain, and all additional measures necessary to the delivery of the goods will be taken and all further methods or combination of methods which can or should be utilised are being devised by our military and naval technicians who, with me, will work out and put into effect such new additional safeguards as may be needed. “Delivery of the needed supplies to Britain is imperative. This can and will be done.

“We must not be defeated by fear of the very dangers we are preparing to resist. Our freedom has shown its ability to survive war. but it would never survive surrender. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. “Today the world is divided between human slavery and human freedom. between pagan brutality and Christian ideas. We will not accept a Hitler-dominated world. We will accept only a world consecrated to freedom of speech and expression and the freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. Wo do not hesitate to Jake every single measure necessary Io maintain our American liberties. Our Government does not

hesitate to meet the challange of Hitlerism. “We reassert the ancient American doctrine of the freedom of the seas. We reassert the solidarity of ' the twenty-one American republics and the Dominion of Canada in the preservation of the independence of the hemisphere. “We have pledged material support to the other democracies. We shall fulfil that pledge. “We in the Americas shall decide for ourselves whether, when and where our American interests are attacked or our security threatened. We are placing our armed forces in strategic military positions. We will not hesitate to use our armed forces to repel an attack. “With profound consciousness of my responsibilities to my countrymen and I my country’s cause, I have tonight issued a proclamation that an unlimited national emergency exists and requires the strengthening of our defences to the extreme limit of our national power and authority. The nation expects all individuals and groups to play their full parts without stint and with- , out selfishness.”

The proclamation, summarised, calls upon a loyal State, loyal leaders and officials to co-operate with the civilian defence agencies to assure interna] security against foreign-directed subversion and put every community in order for a maximum productive effort and minimum waste of unnecessary friction. It appeals to all citizens to place the nation's needs first in mind and action “to the end, that we may mobilise and have ready for instant defensive use all the physical powers, moral strength and material resources of the nation.” It enjoins workmen and employers to merge their lesser differences in a larger effort to ensure the survival of the only kind of government which recognises the rights of Labour and Capital.