IN AN EPIC AGE

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21195, 19 August 1940, Page 7

IN AN EPIC AGE

WEEK OF BRITISH VICTORY NAZI HOPES DISAPPOINTED MR DUFF-COOPER’S TRIBUTE (United r-ress Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, August 18 The Minister of Information, Mr A. Duff-Cooper, making a broadcast speech, said:— “The week just passed, which was to have been a week of German victory, has been a week of British vcitory instead. August 15 was to have been the day on which Hitler would dictate his peace terms—instead, it was a day on which more German aircraft came crashing down on English earth or in the English Channel than ever before have fallen on any one day in the whole history of air warfare. “We are living in an epic age. We should be proud to have lived in it —proud of the great experience, and proud of the final proof that has now been given of the indomitable spirit of our own people. In all parts of the country where the raids have been most numerous and the bombs have fallen thickest, there has the spirit of the people been at its highest, most patient in endurance and most confident of victory. “While we sit on the earth and contemplate these great battles of the skies, and while we calmly defy attack, how can we express adequately in words the deep debt of gratitude we owe to these young heroes who, flying between heaven and earth by day and night, with but short hours of repose, are saving not only the British Commonwealth of Nations from destruction, but are fighting for the cause of truth and freedom against the powers of darkness and evil? “Britain holds Hitler to his promise of invasion,” said Mr Duff Cooper. “We will be most disappointed if he does not turn up.”