A GREAT PEOPLE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 257, 27 September 1940, Page 6

A GREAT PEOPLE

COURAGE OF BRITAIN.

HIGH AMERICAN TRIBUTE

High tribute to the “awe-inspiring courage of the British people 1 1 by the well-known United States commentator on foreign affairs, Mr ter Lippmann, in an article in. York entitled, “The Reasoned Courage of the, British.” . ~ “That courage,” he writes, c°uc not be sustained if, along with i hearts, the people had not also clear heads. They fight on, not in the manner of men' resisting blindly, but as those who know the position- and odds and read the alternative. “Only a great people could do this. The British are a great people. -1 hey have organised the largest security world has known since the days or tn Romans, and with all their mistakes they have extended more widely 1 1 area of law and order than ever before on this earth.

“This great history is in them non. Finally, they are greatly led by a man who knows their history, and having the quality' of greatness and being greatly led, their reason does not undermine, but, on the contrary, strengthens the great courage of thenhearts. They see clearly, and as long as they see clearly 7 , they will not be intimidated or demoralised. “What they do see clearly is not only that if they 7 resist they will eventually 7 win, but also that if they do not resist they will be utterly and absolutely lost. They know that it they 7 do not resist to the utmost in the British Isles and—if they are defeated there—in the Empire, they will he disarmed and helpless, perhaps forever. So they resist at home, knowing that if they are ever conquered in the British Isles their Fleet, Air Lores, and commercial power in the outer world will continue to protect them against enslavement and destruction. “The essence of thei'- courage is the knowledge that the British people cannot be defeated in Britain alone and that the lot of the people of Britain will never be hopeless as long as the Empire and the Fleet remain in being.”