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DUTY TO STAND BY BRITAIN. “JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL.” “We can say with due voice-, one will and ono conviction that tho British Government has done everything possible to prevent this tragedy,” said .the ' Minister of Public Works (the Hon; R. Semple) addressing local body representatives of Canterbury during tho inspection of the irrigation centres in Ashburton County to-day.'- ' ; ‘ “When the history of this bloody conflict is written, the British people must be held innocent. Mr Chamberlain has done ‘ everything—lie. has almost humiliated himself—iii the cause of peace, hut now the step has > been taken our -duty is to make a vow that if England goes down we will go down with her, hut I ain confident we will not go down, that justice will prevail and that the tyrants’ will will not he exercised. We do not live 1 in the days of the jungle. We must do all We, can to help the British institution
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 276, 4 September 1939, Page 4
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159MR SEMPLE’S VIEWS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 276, 4 September 1939, Page 4
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