ANZAC SPIRIT IN TROUBLED WORLD

Grey River Argus, 23 April 1948, Page 5

ANZAC SPIRIT IN TROUBLED WORLD

P.A WELLINGTON, April 22 Welcome greetings and good wishes from the Government and people of Australia, including ex-service personnel, conveyed to the N.Z.R.S.A, by the High Commissioner for Australia for the thirty-third anniversay of Anzac Day, were cordially recipocated in the following message from the Dominion President, Mr C. O. Bell: "The Gallipoli landing, followed by vagaries and vicissitudes of three years of war, created and nourished the spirit of Anzac, which imbued with zeal those who were privileged to have served in the Twenty-ninth British Division and Anzacs and other troops, and who lived Their Sons and daughters within p. generation have perpetuated that spirit, and again contributed to victory. With distrust, envy, intrigue and faithless ness rampant amongsi. those who were partners in the “winning team,” with famine, misery, and death besetting those who were friends, as well as those who were foes. it. behoves those who created and perpetuated the spirit of Anzac, and who have a bounden duty to their fallen comrades to redouble their efforts to inculcate and spread that Anzac spirit wherever they live, so that with perseverence, determination and the will to prevail, the peace which the world is seeking and craving for may be finally won.”