"MAJESTIC AND UNDAUNTED.”

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 39, 26 November 1940, Page 4

"MAJESTIC AND UNDAUNTED.”

“On this day one year ago/’ said the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr Mackenzie King, in an address, delivered on September 2, “the world that had watched with anxious but hopeful eyes while men of good will laboured with all their strength for peace, saw war with indescribable savagery begin the devastation of Europe. During tire months that have since passed, freedom fleeing from many desolate'lands has followed each nation into exile. To-day, the nations of the British Commonwealth alone champion in their full strength the rights of free men. Britain stands majestic and undaunted. To her have rallied those who once caught her accents of liberty and learned from her the lesson of obedience to the law. In this hour of supreme peril there have come also to her side men of Norway, of Holland, of Belgium, of Czecho-slovakia, of Poland and of France. These men are not the ghosts of brave lands that are dead; they arc the souls of brave lands who still live and will once again rise in the full dignity of their freedom and the renewed vigour of indomitable youth. Nevertheless, we and they fight alone.”