Sad Day For All

Northern Advocate, 4 September 1939, Page 5

Sad Day For All

“The House has already been made aware of onr plans. We are ready.

“This is a sad day for all of us, and for none is it sadder than for me. Everything that I have worked for, everything that 1 hoped for, everything that I believed in my public life, has crashed in ruins.

“There is but one thing left for me, and that is to use what strength and power I have to forward the cause for which we have sacrificed' so much.

“I cannot tell what part I may be allowed to play myself. “I trust I may live to see the day when the Hitler regime will be destroyed, and so restore the liberty of

Europe. ” Mr, Arthur Greenwood, the Deputy-Leader of the Opposition, said that the intolerable agony of suspense from which we had all suffered was over. We now knew the worst.

“The hated word Avar’ had been spoken by Britain on her pledged word. For 54 hours Poland had stood alone at the portals of civilisation, defending us and all free nations, all that we stood for, and ail that we held dear. “They stood with unexampled bravery and epic personal courage. Poland we regarded as a comrade. “To her.” said Mr. Greenwood, “we say, ‘Our hearts are with you, and with our hearts are all our powers, until the angel of Peace returns to our midst. “In this titanic struggle, unparalleled in the history of the world, I believe that Nazism must be overthrown.