FAITH IN VICTORY
GRAND DUCHESS'S BROADCAST
FREEDOM FOR LUXEMBURG
(Rec. 9.30 a.m.) Sept.; 7.? • "What I have seen in the. shpirt time I t have;been, in England and during many months in America has confirmed_my absolute faith that Englarid1 will win and. that Luxemburg will be free again," said the Grand Duchess of Luxemburg in, a European broadcast which was addressed socially" to the; [people of Luxemburg.iV \ ; ;
, f'Ttie whole of the English people," she said, "are'''v'as;--^ne:'^'i vIfeefc: ;'dfit«Ky-\'-mination to persevere^ : until the day symbolised by the letter V-": She said she was proud: to be'amoiig people who,; from the highest 1 to the lowest, were prepared to make every sacrifice for freedom. "There is indeed som©-V thing great about the solidarity that unites a great people like those, of the * British Commonwealth of,Nattions with, those of a small nation like Luxem- : burg," she added.; V ■'•'" ■ ';V- : / ■".'■/''■ ■; ~- "What a magnificent; example Eng-s land gives to the whole world' in her battle for ;the principles kof right!"; she continued. "I know there is deep and heartfelt sympathy for our .country^ in the United States, whose people-^-par- v ticularly hundreds of. thousands of ;;> Luxemburgers of, American extraction —regard our cause as their own. Fresi* dent Roosevelt himself assured me' more than once that the great /Ameri-i can nation would not forget ,1 little Luxemburg.; No later than last Mon-'^ day he solemnly declared that America . would do her utmost to vanquish' the: enemy of ;". mankind."—TJ.P.A. and 8.0. W. •.'.■ -■■:' ' ;■■■:■"'.: .--^v" ---H- ;:.i".
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 60, 8 September 1941, Page 7
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248FAITH IN VICTORY Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 60, 8 September 1941, Page 7
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