RIGHT WILL PREVAIL

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20910, 15 September 1939, Page 7

RIGHT WILL PREVAIL

STRUGGLE MAY BE LONG LORD GALWAY’S MESSAGE GERMAN SPIRIT PORTRAYED BRITAIN’S PATIENCE STRAINED (By Telegraph.—Special to Times» WELLINGTON, Thursday “This conflict has involved England and France, who have pledged their word to resist aggression against Poland. The struggle will be bitter. It may be long and it will involve hardship and suffering, but 1 am convinced that in the end right will prevail and out of suffering will emerge a world of freedom,” said the Governor-General, Lord Galway, in a broadcast address to the people of New Zealand this evening on the conflict in Europe. “It must be clear to all that our quarrel is not with the German people themselves,” said His Excellency, “but with the form of government which has tyrannised over them, and, in particular, with one man, Herr Hitler, whose megalomania and ambition has brought about war. Racially we are of the same stock and have many points in common with the German people, but, whereas England was successful in evolving a constitutional Government some 600 years ago, Germany was not so fortunate.” After referring to the persecution of the Jewish race as one of the greatest crimes in history, and speaking of concentration camps where brutality ran unchecked, iHis Excellency said the German people were denied liberty. “They have neither liberty of thought nor liberty of utterance, and are bound in chains by Nazi rule,” he said. “It is our determination to restore peace and goodwill to these unfortunate people who have fallen under the despotism of Nazism, and when the dawn breaks we hope to bring a feeling of security to the Germany of the future —a home for culture and freedom and peace. “The events of the past years are too fresh in your minds to need any further recapitulation. TlTe British Government have had their patience strained to breaking point. They have done their utmost to preserve peace in Europe, but it was not to be, and the moment has arrived when the peoples of the world who wish to live in peace are determined to resist any form of aggression, and take steps, before it is too late, to preserve their own freedom and Empire. magnificent Response “The people of the Mother Country and of the Dominions and colonies are required to play their part, and no doubt this will call for sacrifice on the part of each and all of us. The recent magnificent and immediate response of the young men of New Zealand to the call made for volunteers for the special forces being raised by the Government is something of which any country might well feel proud and is typical of this Dominion and its people. “Many proofs of liberty, loyalty and patriotism have been given in the past and in the maintenance of this spirit lies the surest safeguard of the peace and prosperity of the great Empire to which we are all so proud to belong. None of us are able to say how long this war will last,” concluded His Excellency. “We only knc*v that in the end we shall emerge victorious. God grant that the day may soon Zrrive.”