“Must Back Fighting Men To Limit”

Northern Advocate, 27 April 1940, Page 10

“Must Back Fighting Men To Limit”

“We on the home front, have no rightto drink this toast without pledging ourselves to the limit to support the efforts of our fighting forces to the limit of our financial and physical resources.”

Mr A. L. Flux said this when proposing “The British Services—Navy, Army, Air,” at the Whangarei Returned Soldiers’ Association reunion last night. “You know and I know that we haven't started yet. “I sometimes wonder whether we deserve to win. “We can’t afford the luxury of internal bickering over ways and means of restricted effort and output in factories, farms and transport services, and of subversive propaganda. “Do you know that the most staggering Budget in English history brought forth from its victims only a day or so ago the retort that it was not severe enough? “Doesn’t it make you feel small? The Alternative “You and I know the alternative, and what defeat would mean- the treaty imposed by the Allies at Versailles would read like the Sermon on the Mount against what Germany would impose—if she were victorious. “Our fighting services, backed by you and me 100 per cent. —no less — will win. “Then we can carry to its conclusion the ideal set forth by the Rev. George Brown in his wonderful address yesterday. "But we've got to win first. ’