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No Procrastination “Speed has given to the Nazis all their conquests. We know that not one minute will be lost in preparing the stroke against ourselves. Therefore, every Government department must do today what it had thought to do tomorrow, this week what it may have hoped to postpone till the following. We do not need to repeat that Britain will carry the struggle on to the end. No true citizen of this nation has ever doubted, and if any spur to our resolve were needed, it is given in our vow to revenge the sacrilege done across the provinces of France. We fight for our homes. They now occupy the position once held by the bridgeheads on the Meuse; they will not fall. Yet let us still in the hour of our extremity recall that behind these essential points stretches a vast hinterland which is ours alone. The wealth of the seven seas, the resources of new continents, the will and ardour of free men the world over—these will come to our aid. If the last fortress holds, mankind is saved. Remember the answer of Leonidas : ‘The enemy are near us,’ he was told. ‘And wc are near the enemy,’ he replied.”—The Daily Herald, London.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21209, 4 September 1940, Page 6
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210TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21209, 4 September 1940, Page 6
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