WAR FOR FREEDOM

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 95, 20 March 1940, Page 9

WAR FOR FREEDOM

ALLIES’ GREAT AIM. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 20. Iu the course of an informal talk to the directors of the Centennial Exhibition and others 7iresent when he paid a visit there. Mr D. 11. Grenfell, the visiting Labour M.P. from Britain, spoke of the state of affairs in Europe and of what it was Britain and France were lighting for. They wore the only countries in Europe able to stand up against the conflict that tyranny was forcing. “We are standing up to it now in a way that makes nie proud,” he said. “I am perfectly sure that Britain is as right as 6he has ever been. and that the working cla6S, which has always been ready to resist tyranny, is as right as ever and ready to resist the tyranny that threatens.”

The Allies were fighting to clear the ground for the future. The war was a war for liberty—liberty for the German peoples as well as others. He had visited Germany and had learned the German language, and he knew thousands of Germans who wanted liberty. All peace-loving people must have a say in the making of peace, said Mr Grenfell, because it was not a 6mall job to put the world right. .An attempt had been made after the last war to do that, but it had failed. There, was no reason why it should not succeed in the future, and it would succeed if the people who wanted freedom could secure the right to do it by breaking down the German idea. We would win, and the time would come when the people of Germanv would realise that no man was infallible and that aggression was wrong.

“Then we will work with all the people of the world, and men will employ their understanding to the building of a system of security and safety for Mankind,” added Mr Grenfell.