BASED ON KINSHIP

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 304, 1 October 1940, Page 3

BASED ON KINSHIP

SYMPATHY WITH BRITAIN. AMERICAN BISHOP’S BROADCAST (United Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, September 29. In a recorded broadcast from Richmond, Virginia, Bishop Tucker, speakiug on the occasion of the American day of prayer, said to-night: “Much of our sympathy with Great Britain has a more generous origin than concern for our own safety. In many sections of the country it represents a permanent attitude of friendliness based on a recognition of kinship with the people of Great Britain. ‘Blood is thicker than water,’ would express the feeling of most Americans.

“We recognise that the cause you are defending so valiantly is the same cause as that to which our loyalty is due. It is not only the welfare of Great Britain, but also the continuance of the democratic way of life throughout the world and the maintenance of freedom and other moral values which we deem essential for the well-being of mankind as a whole that are at stako in this war.

“It is that recognition that plays a great part in arousing our sympathetic interest in the cavise which Britain is defending in this war. To this should be added sincere and enthusiastic admiration for tho courage, staying power, and willingness to make enormous sacrifices displayed by her people. It is, I feel confident, such sentiments as these that count in the offering to-day of prayers to God that He will sustain the British people in the- terrible ordeal through which they are passing.

“There are various and conflicting opinions as to what our Government should do in connection with this war, but in our capacity as private citizens we are practically united in the hope for success of the British cause, which we believe to be also the cause of humanity. We are united" in our admiration of British heroism, in our sympathy with British sufferings and in our desire to do all we can for those who ■ are victims of this cruel war.”—British Official Wireless.