WORLD’S DEBT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1943, Page 3

WORLD’S DEBT

TO WINSTON CHURCHILL DECLARED IN HOUSE OF LORDS. LEADER OF LOFTY & HEROIC SPIRIT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. June 8. In a remarkable tribute to Mr Churchill. Lord Cranborne. the Lord Privy Seal, and Leader of the House of Lords, said in the House; — “In the past the Prime Mnister used to be a rather austere and elderly person who remained immovable in the seat of government, and directed our affairs from the centre. Now he needs new and very different qualties. In addition to his ordinary strenuous duties, he is expected to fly over continents and oceans and to other parts of the world. There are no limits to the powers of endurance it a Prime Minister today, and I think it is our good fortune that in the greatest crisis of our history we should have found a man with courage, drive, initiative, and an almost superhuman quality of temperament and buoyancy which has surmounted all difficulties and dangers and lifted the spirit of the British people to his own lofty and heroic level. “Our debt and the world's debt to the Prime Minister grows month by month and day by day, and I think it is fitting that I should take this opportunity of expressing to him our undying gratitude for all •he had done and all he is doing. We thank him from the bottom of our hearts.”

This statement-took the place of the usual parallel statement in the House of Lords on the occasion of speeches such as Mr Churchill’s today. Lord Addison and Lord Samuel associated themselves with the leader’s tribute.