FIGHT TO THE END

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 226, 19 June 1940, Page 10

FIGHT TO THE END

Confidence Of British Empire STIRRING REACTION (Bv Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, June 17. Opinions from all parts of the .Empire reflect the determination oi their peoples to fight the war through to the end. From Australia there were stirring words by the Prime .Minister, .Ur. Menzies. He said that this would not end tlie war. On the contrary, it was tlie beginning of tlie most bitter and most crucial phase. As long as Britain was unconquered the world could be saved. That. Britain could lie conquered was unthinkable. France had fought magnificently, and she would be liberated. The free peoples of tlie world must; get. together and act promptly, and they would win eventually. In Canada the .Minister of Transport, Mr. C. D. Howe, declared that in consequence of France’s decision Canada’s wartime industry had been thrown into a crescendo of production. Comment in tlie Canadian Press shows that, the Dominion is wholeheartedly behind Britain. "It is Inconceivable,” says the “Toronto Star,” “that Britain will be left to bear the burden alone. She is not the last of the great democracies that, is free of German domination. There is another and a great one. Will it hesitate when democracy and all the best things in life are in the balance?” At Montreal the largest Canadian daily paper published in tlie French language says: “'The decision of tlie French Government has not weakened tlie determination of Britain to continue the light. Previous reverses have not disheartened Britain or the British Commonwealth and they now emphatically proclaim that this one will not make them flinch.”