GREAT COURAGE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20547, 6 May 1941, Page 4

GREAT COURAGE

THE BRITISH CHARACTER LETTER FROM LONDON A heartening indication of the toughness of the British character under duress is given in the following letter received by an Auckland man from a business friend in London. It was written as recently as April 14: “The war is not so good at present, but don’t worry. We shall win decisively in due course. All these queer happenings meantime must be left, with taith, to the experts handling the job in this war of quick movement. One thing we must avoid and that if looking at events in the light of the last war, which was like a wrestling bout, with its prodigious efforts in holding on. swaying in one place, and with, perhaps, very slight movement ffirward or back. The whole thing has now got on its feet again—more of the swift movement of a boxing match and we carry the knock-out punch to be delivered in due course. "Advances and retirements which took months in the previous wars are now accomplished in days or hours with mechanical cavalry, and we must not allow ourselves to become perturbed when places spread over long distances are taken, lost and retaken again, all part of the sparring. We have the staying power, and arc developing the punch which will settle the business.”