KING’S SPEECH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1941, Page 5

KING’S SPEECH

AT OPENING OF NEW SESSION • NATIONAL RESOLUTION 1 STRENGTHENED. GRATITUDE TO UNITED STATES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, November 12. The following is the text of the King’s speech’ at the opening of the new session of Parliament today: “The developments of the .past year have strengthened the resolution Of my peoples and my Allies to prosecute this war against aggression until final victory. Meanwhile my Government, in consultation with the Allied Governments and with the, goodwill of the Government of the United States, is considering the urgent problems which will face them when the nations now enduring the tyranny of oppressors regained their freedom. I well know that my people will continue to respond whole-heartedly to the great demands made upon them to furnish my forces with the instruments of victory, and that they are determined to meet to the utmost of their power the needs of the Soviet Union, in its heroic conflict. “The United States is furnishing my people and my allies with war supplies of all kinds on a scale unexampled in history. My relations with Turkey, with whom I have a valued treaty of; alliance, remain firmly based on trust j and friendship. I welcome the restoration to his throne of the Emperor of Ethiopia. Thus the first country which fell a victim to aggression has been the first to be liberated and re-established. My loyal subjects in Malta continue to face air attacks with a fortitude that commands my deepest admiration. The fulfilment of the task to which we are committed will call for the courage and devotion which our forefathers never failed to show when the country was in danger. My Government will continue to take ali practical steps to sustain the health and well-being of my peoples under the stress of war.”