ST. PATRICK’S COLLEGE

Grey River Argus, 7 October 1941, Page 2

ST. PATRICK’S COLLEGE

iGovernor-General’s Address ' MENACE OF GERMANY IN FUTURE. PA. WELLINGTON. October 6. The Governor-General (Sir Cyril Newall) addressed the pupils of the St. Patrick’s College, Silverstream, this afternoon, presenting to the College a Union Jack on behalf of the Navy League. Sir Cyril addressed the students. He said: “We were all convinced that no nation would/ever again attempt to wage a war of aggression—we thought that four yeais of the bloodiest fighting then known to history would cure the world of that. It did not cure the Germans.” He continued: “The defeat which is coming to the Germans this time, after even bloodier lighting than that of the. last war, will not cure them of their lust for war pithpr ff Sir Cyril added: “They can only be cured by learning that war does not pay, arid the only way to teach them that is to prove to them that peace does. They must be given a real chance to learn the avantages of a peaceful life. But, while they are learning, we must never relax our vigilance for one instant. That lesson will take a very long time indeed Remember that every child in Germany to-dav is being taught to look upon might as right; is being taught to mock all that we hold most sacred, and to worship all that we detest.’ Those children, when they grow up, will be thirsting, for revenge; few of them will ever be able to cast aside the poison which Hitler has instilled in them, and they will pass it on to their own children. The education of those children will be one of the most urgent practical problems of your generation, and until that problem is solved—and it can hardly be solved in your lifetime—watch Germany!” ;