COMMON CAUSE
U.S.A. & DOMINION
GENERAL HURLEY'S PLEDGE
"I have not met one single New Zealander that I didn't like. They are the most generous, the most courteous, the most hospitable people that I have ever known," declared BrigadierGeneral Hurley, United States Minister to New Zealand, at the annual meeting of the Wellington Gatholic Seamen's Institute yesterday.
"All of our contacts with New. Zealanders have been of the most engaging type," said General Hurley. "We are happy out here. We know the history of the Dominion of New Zealand. We know that you began in about the same way as we began. We know that you have had your struggles, as we have had them. We know that you have a land now where the rich arc not very rich and the poor are not very poor, where you take pride in the fact that you have so distributed incomes and the goods of the world that you, have happiness in your Dominion. We know that throughout your long history you have followed the golden rule as a solution of your problem. We know that New Zealand has always recognised the rights of mankind. ...
"As I said to your Prime Minister the day I came here," continued the General, "we have come to New Zealand tit a time when she is in a war for her survival, for the perpetuation of her principles, for her way of life. I come to you from your kinspeople across the mighty Pacific Ocean, from the greatest republic of the world, from the land of liberty, to say to you that your principles are our principles and your cause is our cause. And as a token of our faith in the future of the cause I pledge to you the resources, lives, honour, and power Of one hundred and thirty million Americans.
"We feel," continued General Hurley, "that Japan is not only threatening the liberty and freedom of the Pacific. She is threatening the liberty and way of life of all peaceful nations, and we have decided that with New Zealand and the United Nations we propose to attack, defeat, and destroy Japan." (Applause.)
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 133, 8 June 1942, Page 4
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359COMMON CAUSE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 133, 8 June 1942, Page 4
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