VICTORY YEAR

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21601, 2 January 1945, Page 5

VICTORY YEAR

CHURCHILL FORECAST AGONY’S LAST PHASE DANGER oFsLACKENINC (9 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 1 “To-day we are entering upon a year that should bring us victory _i Europe,” said Mr. Winston Churchil in a New Year message to member, af the Primrose League, of which h< is grand master. “Before many months have passed 'he evil gang that t'oo long ha dominated that unhappy continer ■vill be wiped out. Until that en; las been achieved, there can be nreturn to our normal habits. It woulr be tragic folly to prolong, by an-, slackening in the last phase. Rv agony that megalomaniac ambitio: has loosed upon the world.” ' Referring to Mr. Disraeli, founder if the Primrose League, Mr Churchill quoted from that states •nan’s words: “In a progressive country change is constant, and the great 'question is not whether you should resist the change which is in itable. but whether that change should be carried out in deference t'he manners, customs, laws and traditions of the people, or in deference to abstract principles and arbitrary and general doctrines.” Mr 'Niurchill said: “If we are to hammer cut successfully, in this old country of ours, new policies to conform wit 1 'he spirit of the new times into whin’ we are emerging, we should surely dr well to ponder these words of on<who was himself a great reformer and a bold innovator."