Germany’s Empire Will Not Last

Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 259, 1 November 1940, Page 8

Germany’s Empire Will Not Last

LACK OF GOODWILL RUGBY, Oct. 30. A tribute of grateful thanks to the daughter nations of the British Com monwealth was paid by the Secretary of State for the Dominions, Lord Crar.bourne, when speaking in London today. Contrasting the old type cf empire, a shocking example of which was exhibited by the Third Reich, with the new type, as represented *>- the British Commonwealth, he said fhat, whereas the Nazis were holding down Poland. Czechoslovakia, Norway. Denmark, I Holland, and Belgium by force, Britain was receiving magnificent and freelyoffered help from tbe Dominions. Against the Italian foe, soldiers from I 6outh Africa, Rhodesia, Australia, and ' New Zealand were massing alongside I their British comrades. Because they were not founded on a solid basis of goodwill, such empires as : the Greater Reich could not last, Lord I Cranboume declared. ' “In this storm which is shaking tbe very foundations of the world,” he added, “the British Empire stands like a great rock on which the winds and waves break without weakening its essential strength. Other great nations have crumbled into ruins, but the British Commonwealth lemains unshaken. undismayed, and serene, guarding a civilisation which, without it, jrould already be a thing of the past.