PLEDGE OF LOYALTY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 September 1941, Page 4

PLEDGE OF LOYALTY

TO IDEALS OF ALLIED NATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RESOLUTION. TRIBUTE TO ARMED FORCES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. A resolution expressing New Zealand’s devotion to the ideals ’for which Britain and her Allies are fighting, and determination to do everything possible to bring about victory, was adopted unanimously by the House of Representatives yesterday. The resolution was moved by the ActingPrime Minister, Mr Nash, and seconded by the Leader of the Opposition. Mr Holland. The text of the resolution is as follows; "That on the occasion of the second anniversary of the declaration of war this House, in the name of the people of New Zealand, records its fervent devotion to the ideals of liberty and justice for which the British Commonwealth of Nations and its Allies, Poland, Free France, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Greece, Czechoslovakia. Yugoslavia and the U.S.S.R. are fighting, and its inflexible determination to do all that lies in its power to contribute toward the decisive defeat of the forces rangect against the freedom-loving peoples 01 the world, and the establishment of a lasting peace. This House also records its high admiration of the splendid achievement in all fields of action of the Navy, Army and Air Forces of the Dominion, and honours the sacred memory of those who have sacrificed their lives in the cause of freedom.”