Afrca’s Part in the War
(British Official Wireless) Received Thursday, 9.30 p.m. i RUGBY, May 14. Broadcasting to Africa on the 50th . anniversary of the Nyasaland Protectorate the Colonial Secretary (Lord [ Moyne) said the war involved the 1 future of Africa as well as of Europe. : If the Nazis won tho hope of civilisa- - tion in Africa would be at an end and 1 its peoples would be thrown back into . slavery under German taskmasters. Men | from all over Africa fought like lior.n : in the Empire armies which destroyed i Italian rule in East Africa. . The men of the African races had . learned how to use the wonderful and terrible inventions of modern warfare and not even the natural difficulties of these mountain countries had enabled > the Italians to resist their attack. ■ Many of the things produced in t African colonies wero vital to tho war > industries —gold, copper, chrome, iron , ore, industrial diamonds, etc. These the i Empire wanted in increasing quantities. “Go to it to fulfil these needs,” concluded Lord Moyne.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 115, 16 May 1941, Page 7
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