PACIFIC OUTLOOK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1942, Page 3

PACIFIC OUTLOOK

DOMINIONS IN DANGER NEED OF STOUT-HEARTED EFFORT. ASSURANCE BY SIR. S. CRIPPS. LONDON. March 5. “We realise how vital is the defence of Australia and New Zealand and the defeat of the Japanese enemy. We can and will come to your aid. said the Lord Privy Seal. Sir Stafford Cripps, in a broadcast to the two Dominions tonight. "The tide of war has not yet reached its lowest, level. Were that the whole story, it would appear disheartening, but‘it is not." he stated. ■‘Britain has mighty allies at her side. This alliance of peoples today is battling with forces of evil from one end of the world to the othei, and it cannot be defeated unless it allows faint-hearted people to sap its strength. “You and I know what hard and difficult times lie ahead. We also know that .from the sufferings of the war. will be born a new civilisation—not a ‘new order’ or a ‘co-prosperity sphere’ built on the sufferings and slavery of peoples by some dominant race which seeks to proclaim its superiority by inhuman acts of violence. '“We shall fight on through all the setbacks’, through the defeats and disappointments, to make living worthwhile.

“At one period in the war, after the collapse of France, when the British Commonwealth of Nations faced the Germans alone, we in Britain were troubled with an urgent threat of invasion. Australia and New Zealand are in a similar state of mind. We realise how vital is the defence of Australia and New Zealand. We reflect with pride and gratitude on the help you have given in the other fields of war and are still giving. We can and will come to your aid.”