FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
MESSAGE FROM MR. CHURCHILL
SHALL STRIVE TOGETHER
MR. ERASER'S REPLY
The following cablegram was received by the Prime Minister (the Hon. P. Fraser) yesterday from the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain: —
On accepting his Majesty's' invitation to fill the office of Prime Minister, I send you my warmest greetings. A great responsibility has fallen to me at this critical hour, but its weight is lightened by the sure knowledge that I can rely on your wholehearted support and that of the other Prime Ministers of overseas Dominions. The people of the British Commonwealth of Nations are once again united in arms against tyranny and barbarism. Together we shall suffer and strive, together we shall persevere, and the gates shall not be shut on freedom and justice. Mr. Fraser sent the following reply: I have to acknowledge and to thank you for your message of May ■13, and I most cordially reciprocate your greetings. I have noted with great interest your assumption of the office of Prime Minister and the formation of a new Government on a wide political basis, and I wish at once to assure you of the fullest measure of" co-operation from the Government and people of New Zealand, European and Maori alike. The responsibilities that will devolve upon ycu and your colleagues in this critical stage of the great struggle upon wnich we have entered together will be most onerous, but
you may rely entirely upon our sympathetic understanding and our whole-hearted upport in all measures necessary to bring this struggle to an early and successful conclusion. At this time particularly, when
the enemy's forces have at last been fully unleashed, we can confidently rely on the determination of our people throughput Hie British Commonwealth, which is never stronger than in a crisis such as this, on the justice of our cause and on our efforts, undertaken as they are by our own free will, to release ourselves and the world for all time from the threat of domination by brutal force directed with unrelenting cruelty.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1940, Page 5
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346FIGHT FOR FREEDOM Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1940, Page 5
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