A DANE’S FAITH

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXX, Issue 13670, 18 June 1942, Page 2

A DANE’S FAITH

“LIFT THE FLAG HIGH” Mr Gudne, a Danish journalist, writing in the American-Scandinav-ian Review, says: “That which the Danes who are now outside of Denmark have a right to demand of their countrymen at home is that they show their faces; that they do not bend, do not allow themselves to be swept unresisting into the abyss. They must show that they are not less brave or less faithful or less willing to sacrifice than all the other nations who to-day are fighting for their life and freedom.

“Up to 27th December, 1941, Denmark had only two words, uttered in the English House of Commons, to support her hope for the future. They were spoken when a member asked whether the liberation of Denmark was a part of England’s war aims, and Under-Secretary of State Butler said, ‘Yes, sir.’

“But on 27th December Minister de Kauffmann took part in the first Allied conference in the United States. May not Denmark hope that this is a first step toward a genuine acceptance of Denmark as an ally?

“The time has come when we can again say of the old Danish flag, the Dannebrog, as it was said in 1219 at the battle of Lundanis: ‘Lift it high. The higher it is lifted, the nearer is victory’.”