GREAT LEADER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1941, Page 4

GREAT LEADER

MR CHURCHILL’S BULLDOG QUALITIES. SIR C. NEWALL’S TRIBUTE. IBv Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, July 3. “It is impossible today to think of John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, or his victory at Blenheim, without remembering his incomparable descendant, Winston Churchill. ’ said Sir Cyril Newall this afternoon when replying to a civic welcome on the occasion of his first visit to Marlborough. “You must all be' proud indeed ot your association with such a man When I was in London throughout the first year of the war I saw him daily. Every time I saw him his courage and determination inspired me afresh. You have only to see him to understand why the bulldog typifies the British. “This British quality of doggedness has stood the Empire in good stead in these dark days. It has carried the people of the Motherland triumphantly through the concentrated horrors o? Nazi brutality. They have proved conclusively that the gloomy prophets who. told us before the war 1 that the British were decadent were much mistaken. One has only to think of the prowess ol the young men in the three Services tc realise this, and of the heroism of the flower of these islands in Greece and Crete.”

Sir Cyril Newall, who arrived witl Lady Newall by air yesterday afternoon, was addressing a large crowd assembled in Market Place, where a representative parade of military, Air Force and civilian units made an impressive spectacle. Their Excellencies devoted the morning to an inspection of the Woodbourne flying training school and the Wairau Hospital, and left after the civic function for Nelson.