BRITAIN’S SPIRIT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 215, 9 August 1940, Page 6

BRITAIN’S SPIRIT.

“VITAL AND SINGLE-MINDED.” Tho indomitable spirit of Britain and her inflexible will in this time of crisis are well exemplified in the following extract from a letter written by a young New Zealander now in the United Kingdom. She writes:— “The feeling of the whole country and the whole Press has changed miraculously under Churchill. whose gifts it seems arc exactly suited to tho situation. Unity just isn’t the word. One would never have thought that a democracy, and a British democracy at that, could drop its easygoing methods so completely and become suddenly so vital and so singleminded. It is well symbolised in the sleeping British lion, after what seemed yawning and stretching, suddenly rising in all its formidable power. “I have a great admiration for Bovin, the new Minister of Labour, whose speeches are really thrilling. It is all so tremendously exciting, the instant response by Labour to bis appeal for intensified work and long hours, when one bears in mind the traditional eapacit3' of the British for grumbling.”