PEOPLE WILL NOT FLINCH

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21219, 16 September 1940, Page 7

PEOPLE WILL NOT FLINCH

FACING AND SURMOUNTING SUPREME ORDEAL PEOPLE’S BRAVERY, SACRIFICE, AND MUTUAL AID (Official Wireless) (Received Sept. 16, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 15 The Battle of London as an incident, but the supreme incident, in the preliminaries of the Battle of Britain, is the subject of Sunday newspaper editorials. The Sunday Times writes: “Ever since France went out of the war and the British Empire was left to wage it alone two things have been evident to thinking men—(l) that Britain can win, and (2) that on the way to victory she must face and surmount the supreme ordeal. After months of waiting the ordeal is now on her. Beyond it lies victory if she holds fast.” The paper adds that over the many harrowing scenes witnessed in the past week has risen the bravery of the common English folk, refusing to he conquered and blossoming under the trial into the flower of self-sacrifice and mutual aid such as only a very great people indeed can compass. Mr J. L. Garvin, in the Observer, says he is quite confident that there will be no flinching at paying the unavoidable price of success and salvation. Three-quarters of the huge region covered by London and its suburbs shows no serious trace of the enemy. Only a minute percentage of its millions of inhabitants has been struck. It would take more than the Nazis possess or conceive to wreck this wonderful city, much less daunt its soul.