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° • ft | HAIL PEACE... I 0 | To-day a World salutes you—you fighting men • J jj & and women of the Armed Forces who have paid so " j £ _ dearly to bring to us the Peace we hail to-day. To ; j o you who paid with life itself we pledge ourselves jj U Wk to-day—that we will remember .. . and that in the Jc . (j Peace that you have won for us we shall not fail as ;jl jj we have failed before—this time you have not died | 0 " it seems appropriate ]in this your hour that we j jj * A /MP should quote you ... as we have quoted™ Statesmen. 8 v ■' And so it is with pride that we reprint your thoughts y ... .expressed in the words of "P. 484" a s'oldier in 0 the A.I.F. .. . with acknowledgments to "Khaki and I jj Green/' official publication of the Australian Mili- r~ | tary Forces. j ° n ° n o PEACEFUL PENETRATION I P We seem to be sure about'winning; this war jj U It's winning the Peace that's the worry k n We know that the last was a failure that passed jj o To die in a chaos of flurry. 8 (j When asked by the mites what we did in the fights, y 2 Our boastings and tales never cease; n U. ' It's just as well they never face us and say, j) n "And what did you do in the Peace" jj u Would we wave it aside cts it only applied . ' a ft To Parliaments, Mayors and Kings? 0 o Or be honest and say, "My child; in my day •■jj (j I failed in responsible things. |J p I never could see that the world was just me |j jj In thousands and thousands of men, lj fj And the Peace-terms were born in the things that I'd scorn jj o As being too trivial then. " ■ fj [] What thing's; Of a shake of the hand for the sake y 2. Of straightening quarrel and strikes, fl U And saying "I'm wrong'" to help things along, > . jl | For pride is the course of dislikes." | ° 8 [j When boosting this strife we've made ev'ry life $ 0 A servant to national claim, x (J And now ev'ry man must honestly plan u n To make peace his personal aim n J P>y facing his wife, his office, his life « fl From ill-feeling Peeking release; U g With an honest delight in setting things right ; - ' j> {] Determined to hang on to Peace. y 1 'i ' I o ; I

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Hutt News, Volume 18, Issue 43, 16 May 1945, Page 7

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Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 Hutt News, Volume 18, Issue 43, 16 May 1945, Page 7