“THE SEA IS OUR LIFE”
GREAT BRITAIN’S GREATNESS
“The Lord Privy Seal used the words ‘a nation of shopkeepers. I was always grateful, to Napoleon for that sneei about the British,” said Mr R. A. Cary, M.P., speaking in the House of Commons. “It misled the world into thinking that British greatness was founded upon some guttersnipe sharpness of the market-place. The secret of the British was the fact that they were a nation of sailors, not a nation of shopkeepers. Members may recall the scene in Thomas Hardy s epic drama of the Napoleonic wars, ‘The Dynasts,’ when General Mack, the commander-in-chicf of the Austrian army, sun ondered to Napoleon. Napoleon says to General Mack: But 1 want nothing on this continent. The English only are my enemies. . Ships, colonies and commerce I desire. Hitier talks of a new European order. New European order fiddlesticks. Without ships, colonies and commerce, Europe is a dying carcase. Unless Hitler can break British sea supremacy, Germany itself will die with the rest of Europe. We have to keep sea supremacy.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 September 1941, Page 3
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