STRUGGLE WILL CONTINUE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 169, 17 June 1940, Page 6

STRUGGLE WILL CONTINUE

The message which the British Government promptly addressed to the French Government on the fall of Paris is a solemn earnest thab a great, decision taken to free the Democratic nations from the nightmare of Nazism is not affected by the military misfortunes which have overtaken the Allies. The solemnity of the hour called forth the message which strikingly acknowledges the great gallantry of the French soldiers and people in their trial, and of the “heroic fortitude and constancy of the French armies” against Nazi odds. Britain’s vast resources are aligned with France’s and the union of the two nations in their war against Nazism remains indissoluble. Whatever may confront them in the immediate future they are prepared for, and will together march against, the enemy wherever the battle may lead. The letter strikes a majestic note at this trying period when both countries face a peril which must be resisted to the very end. Now is the; time for stout hearts and determined mien, not to be shaken by any disaster which may befall us, but to work and strive, every one of us, for the day when, as the British Government says, France stands safe and erect in all her grandeur, wronged and enslaved States and’peoples have been liberated, and civilisation is free from the nightmare of Nazidom. Inspiring, too, is the note “that this day will dawn we are more sure than ever,” and “it may dawn sooner than we now have the right to expect.” There can be no thoxxght other than of the great victory which will be won by the Allied foi’ces m God’s good time. For the moment the sky may be dark but the future is xxndimmed, and the dawn of liberation will come. The spirit of Britaip and France mxxst permeate all the people of this coxintry. There must be no dolefxxl thoughts among them—that is helping Hitlerism.