FOUR YEARS OF WAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 September 1943, Page 3

FOUR YEARS OF WAR

AND TASKS STILL FACED PREMIER’S ANNIVERSARY MESSAGES. TO PEOPLE OF DOMINION & ALLIED LEADERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Messages on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the outbreak of was, which is today, have been sent by the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, to Mr Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt. In these the Prime Minister re-affirms New Zealand’s pledge to continue to fight on with all its strength md all its resources till final victory is achieved. A special anniversary message to the citizens of the Dominion was also issued by Mr Fraser, who said that four years ago the people of New Zealand ranged themselves unhesitatingly alongside the Mother Country in declaring war against Germany. “We did so’,” he added, “with full knowledge of the fateful consequences of our decision, but with equal sureness that there was no other course if we were to survive as a nation and preserve the liberties and the other moral values by,which we guide our lives.” “The record of achievement which is behind us,” Mr Fraser says in the concluding part of his message, “will not blind anyone to the enormous tasks which loom ahead. Rather must it be a challenge to continue the fight for justice and freedom against fear and want. Our experiences have, without doubt, prepared us to meet the new demands of a new world, a world in which New Zealand will take its rightful place as a country bent upon pursuing the peaceful ways of ordered progress and peopled by men and women who realise that reconstruction, wisely planned and wholeheartedly carried out, will render dearly won victory enduring and complete.”