DEBT TO ENGLAND

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 136, 10 May 1945, Page 4

DEBT TO ENGLAND

NOBLY LED PEOPLE.

(Press Assn.) AUCKLAND, Mav 10. A plea to a large congregation not to forget the debt owed to the people of England was made by Archbishop Averill m an address at St. Matthew's Church. .

In our rejoicing for the deliverance or Europe we must not forget to thank for the burden which has been lilted from glorious little England—noble little En-land— and from those splendid people in England so noblv led by our gracious Kin K and Queen ana by that wonderful man of inspiration *h e p r i me Minister," said the Archbishop. "We must not imagine the dav of peace has fully dawned, for a dark war cloud still hanes over the North iaeinc where there is an enemy as brutal, and devilish as the one which has been crushed," said the Archbishop. We must continue to work and pray tor the complete overthrow of Japan and the release of the personnel and territories overrun by her." , -\» e .i Archbishop ridiculed Japan's claim that her Emperor was at least semi-divine, and predicted that her deteat would come shortly. God would not tolerate such devilry, under the camouflage of divine right or divine destmy. lh e collapse of Germany would intensify the splendid work of'ridding the 1 acifie of an insidious, treacherous, and cruel enemy. •