Why He Likes Us
Here, in part, is the way Mr. Brockington said he would answer the question "How do you like New Zealand?" "TT is true I have been in New Zealand only ten days, but during that short time I have seen‘something of & land that has learned the great lesson of compassion and is determined, in so far as it is possible, that men and women within its borders shall be happy and free and equal in the great opportunities of life, that children shall know what joy is, that men shall labour in dignity and honour, that the sick shall know careful tender« (Continued on next page)
(Continued from previous page) ness in the days of their suffering, and the aged, tranquillity in the time of their sunset. I have met many men and women who have spoken to me of their sons who are fighting in far-off skies and distant deserts. Some have told me with dry eyes of those ‘whom they have loved long since and lost awhile.’ And as they have spoken to me I too have remembered what the world of free men will never forget-Greece and Crete and Libya and Tunisia and the River Plate and Guadalcanal. I know you are proud of New Zealand. Nearly every New Zealander I meet tells me he is, and I do not wonder. You don’t. need my praises, of course, but L, offer them humbly, for it seems to me that you are proud of New Zealand for the -fight reasons’ and they are among the greatest reasons in the world.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 200, 22 April 1943, Page 4
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266Why He Likes Us New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 200, 22 April 1943, Page 4
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