WILL TO VICTORY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20262, 1 June 1940, Page 7

WILL TO VICTORY

EVIDENCE IN BRITAIN PEOPLE’S FINE RESPONSE SPEEDING UP SUPPLY EXAMPLE OF COUNTESS (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Reed, noon RUGBY, May 31. There has been a splendid response to the appeal which the Churchill administration made for harder and longer work-in munitions industries Already the rate of output of essential supplies shows the effect of the manner in which the managements and workpeople have braced themselves in response to the call of critical times. The increase in the rate of output of munitions is very marked. An assurance to this effect was given in a public statement to-day by the new Minister of Supply, Mr. Herbert Morrison.

The Minister also promised that in applying the powers conferred upon him by the new' emergency defence regulations he would avoid interference for its own sake', but he would act in the spirit in which Parliament had delegated so important a part of its authority—‘the spirit of absolute determination that no personal . or material vested interests, no past habits or thought, shall be allowed to stand in the way for one moment of our drive for victory.” Trophies of Lord Roberts

Mr. Morrison disclosed that the Countess Roberts, a daughter of the late Field Marshal Earl Roberts had made an offer he had accepted of many magnificent trophies of war which came to her father in the course of his brilliant career. There are field guns and cannon of every line of the field marshal’s own campaigns and priceless historic trophies of war, many of them dating back for centuries and given to him in gratitude by the Government of India and others whom he served. ■ Mr. Morrison added: “It needs little imagination to understand the spirit of high resolve and sacrifice which must have animated such an offer which I have gratefully accepted. Let the whole country accept it as such and the W'orld record it as what it is—a symbol of the intense will to victory that inspires Britain. Everything that past achievement has brought to this country will be cast into the scale.