MANY FRIENDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 210, 6 September 1939, Page 10

MANY FRIENDS.

MESSAGES TO EMPIRE.

Ministers For Dominions

And Colonies.

GOOD FEELING STRESSED. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LOXDOX, September 5. Mr. Anthony Eden, newlv-appointcd Dominions Secretary, in a message to the Dominions, says: "I am proud of the responsibility entrusted to me with mv appointment, effected in days which are grave and anxious. I am glad to assume office with many happy recollections of contacts friendships made in London and Geneva with Prime Ministers and other Ministers from countries constituting the British Commonwealth. I shall be sparing no effort to continue the happy relations which my predecessors maintained."

A British official wireless message states that, in a message to the peoples of all the colonial territories, the Colonial Secretary, Mr. M<tl<v>]m Mac Donald. says how the knowledge of the feelings of 60.000.000 fellow citizens in the colonial Empire sustained those at Home in their efforts for peace, and steeled them in their preparations for war.

"Unhappily, the work of the peacemakers has been finally thwarted," the message goes oil, '"and we are being forced to enter upon hostilities, not only to honour our pledge to our friends, but to secure the survival of good faith and liberty amongst civilised peoples."

In conclusion. Mr. Mac Donald makes the point that the long and happy association of so many peoples of different races and creeds under the British Crown is itself proof that the ideal of peace and fruitful eo-operation between diverse peoples, who are willing to understand and respect each other is attainable.

That knowledge will fortifv us in our fight to secure the establishment of that ideal in a wider world," he adds. •