AMERICAN AID IN GREAT TASK

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 157, 29 March 1941, Page 12

AMERICAN AID IN GREAT TASK

Wiping - Out Hitlerism TRIBUTE AT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DINNER "With the epoch-making speech of that great world personality, President Roosevelt, still ringing in our ears, an inspiration to all democracies throughout the world during these dark hours, I feel that nothing I can say can convey our admiration and appreciation,” said the president of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, Mr. R. H. Nimmo, welcoming the Consul of the United States of America, Mr. R. English, io the chamber’s annual dinner last night. “We have all been horrified by the tremendous casualties of the civil population of the United Kingdom. . . . Messages such as that received over the air from President Roosevelt make us rededicate ourselves to the great task that lies ahead. We square our shoulders, we set our teeth and, with clenched fists and reinforced by the aid of the great American democracy, we are determined to sweep Hitlerism with all its satanic power from the face of the earth. Remembering Lincoln’s words when he said that he hoped to achieve a new birth of freedom with the help of God, we know it is only with the help of God that we shall achieve our victory. We remember that Divine intervention has again and again saved the Empire in the hour of crisis. If we go forward, making the sacrifices that are expected of us and remembering that by our actions and our deeds we must justify Divine leadership, then, and only then, will we achieve the victory that American aid will go a long way toward making possible.”