NO COMPROMISE POSSIBLE

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 50, 22 November 1941, Page 10

NO COMPROMISE POSSIBLE

Mr. Duff Cooper On War NO MORE TREATIES WITH HITLER

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, November 21.

“This is no war where coinpromise is possible. This is no war where at the end we will be shaking hands with the defeated and making fine treaties under which he will pledge himself not to do. it again. No one outside .a lunatic asylum will ever sign a treaty with Hitler again. Paper is growing latner scarce in England today and no one is going to .waste a nice piece of white paper by putting his name on it with Hitler’s.” t This observation was made by the visiting British Minister, Mr. A. Dulf Cooper, when stressing at a civic inception to him today the gravity of the issues at stake in tbe w<rr. "This is indeed a magnificent welcome to New Zealand,” said Mr. Dutt Cooper, when speaking to the more than 2000 people who crowded tbe Town Hall for the reception extended by the mayor. Mr. Duff Cooper was accompanied bv Lady Diana Duff Cooper irnd both were given a most enthusiastic reception. “It makes one wonder at the temerity of those who dared to challenge (be British Empire when one finds here on tbe opposite side of the earth a whole great people living in freedom, loving freedom, fighting, for freedom, and prepared to die for freedommembers of a great commonwealth of independent nations spread so broad, planted so deep, witli thoughts so high and courage so inexhaustible.” said Mr. Duff Coo)>er. “When one sees this one wonders how even the most assiduous, hard-working and deliberately active instruments for ill-will of a country shut in among other countries, with none of the same freedom, none of the same traditions, none of the same spirit—a country which has failed to make, a success of any of the colonization she has attempted—could dare to hope that in the end they could triumph over free will and determination of so many and such democratic countries.

Germans And Colonies.

"1 have been in Germany between the last war and this one and nothing astonished me {more than tbe widespread ignorance of what tbe British Empire meant, of the difference between Dominions and colonies and of the basic faith that hold the whole fabric together. We have been through stern times since then. “Let us have no doubt about what the next few years will ■mean. They will mean either that Hitler is going to rule the whole world or that lie and his companions, abettors and supporters are going to be wiped away and utterly destroyed. “This is an all-out war,’ concluded Mr. Duff Cooper. “Not only our lives depend upon our success. Not only—which is more important—does the future of the Empire depend upon our victory, but it is the whole world anil the future of the whole world that wo are fighting for this day. This is the battle we are waging. This is the struggle, and with God’s help we shall win.” In bis address of welcome Mr. Allum asked Mr. Duff Cooper when he returned to Britain to express to Mr. Churchill and the people New Zealand’s profound admiration for them and its heartfelt sympathy in t’ne trials and suffering which they had been called on to undergo. The Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, associated himself with Mr. Allum, and welcomed Mr. Duff Cooper and Lady Diana Duff Cooper on behalf of the Government, Parliament and people.

WELLINGTON RECEPTION

A civic reception will be tendered to Mr. Duff Cooper and Lady Diana Duff Cooper, at 12 noon on Monday, in the Concert Chamber of the Wellington Town Hall.

A cordial invitation is extended to all citizens to attend the reception.