PLEDGE RENEWED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 168, 15 June 1940, Page 7

PLEDGE RENEWED.

ANGLU-FKEiNLH bULII/AKii 1. FIGHT TO THE FINISH. LO'NDON, June 13. A message has been sent by the British Government to the Government of France. “In this solemn hour for the British and French nations,” it says, “and for the cause of freedom and Democracy to which they have bound themselves, His Majesty’s Government desires to pay to the Government of the French Republic a tribute which is due to the heroic fortitude and constancy of the French armies in battle aga'inst . enormous odds. Their effort is worthy of the most glorious traditions of France and has inflicted deep and longlasting injury upon the enemy’s strength. Great Britain will long continue to give the utmost aid in her power. “We take this opportunity of proclaiming the indissoluble unity of our two peoples and of our two empires. We cannot measure the various trials and tribulations which will fall upon our peoples in the near future. We are sure that the ordeal by fire will only fuse them together in one unconquerable whole. We renew to the French Republic our pledge and resolve to continue the struggle at all costs in France, in this island, upon the oceans, and in the air. wherever it might lead us. using all our resources to the utmost limit and sharing together the burden ef repairing the ravages of war. • “We shall never turn from ihe conflict till France stands cafe and erect in all her grandeur, till wronged and enslaved States and peoples are liberated and civilisation is freed from, the nightmare of Nazism. That that day ..will .dawn we are more assured than ever. It may dawn sooner than wo now have the right to expect.”