WIN WAR FIRST

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20824, 1 July 1942, Page 2

WIN WAR FIRST

U.S. MINISTER’S APPEAL UNION OF FREE PEOPLES PEACETIME OBJECTIVE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. “Those of us who have long advocated an English-speaking union have - now come to the realisation that our objective was too narrow. If I may use a military expression, our sights have been too low,” declared Brigadier- . General Hurley, American Minister to New Zealand, at a meeting of the English-Speaking Union and BritishAmerican Co-operation movement last night. “A purely English-speaking union in i the light of the events of the past few years is not. broad enough. We . should use the relationship now existing between the British and American 1 people as the foundation upon which to build a union of all free peoples. “An English-speaking union would < not, for example, include our friends and comrades the Mexicans, the ■ Chinese and many other free and courageous nations who have associated themselves in this war against ■ totalitarianism. We cannot afford to exclude any people who, by sacrifice and courage, are contributing to the defeat of the Axis. , , “The after-war plans of the United Nations for world prosperity, peace and justice are well advanced. They are more comprehensive, more spiritual, idealistic, humane and practical than anything suggested by our enemies, but none of these plans will prevail until we win the war. L ask my fellow Americans and our British comrades to discontinue for the moment debates about what we will dc with victory. Let us unite to achieve victory." .