STANDING SERENE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 17, 31 October 1940, Page 5

STANDING SERENE

THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

GUARDIAN OF CIVILISATION.

OTHER NATIONS CRUMBLE

(Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, October 30

Tribute of grateful thanks to the daughter nations and the Commonwealth was paid by Lord Cranbourne, speaking in London. Contrasting the old type of Empire as a shocking example which was exhibited by the Third Reich, “with the new type, as represented by the British Commonwealth, lie,, said that whereas the Nazis were holding down Poland, Norway, .Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Hollyand and Belgium by force, Britain was receiving magnificent and freelyoffered help from the Dominions.. Against the Italian foe, soldiers from South Africa, Rhodesia, Australia and New Zealand were massing alongside their British comrades. Because they were not founded on a solid basis of goodwill, such empires as the Greater, Reich could not last.

“In this storm which is shaking the very foundations of the world, the British Empire stands like a great rock on which the winds and waves break without weakening its essential strength, Other great nations have crumbled into ruins, but the British Commonwealth remains unshaken and undismayed, the ■ serene guardians of civilisation, which, without it, would already be a thing of the past.”