Britain Today Full Of Confidence, Enterprise
(Special) AUCKLAND. This Day. "I come to you from a confident Britain. She is in her Elizabethan mood again, bubbling over with enterprise, invention and resourcefulness,” said Sir Patrick Duff, the new High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in New Zealand, on his arival in Auckland by air yesterday afternoon. With Lady Duff, Sir Patrick is paying his first visit to Auckland
“We have never set up to be plaster saints in Britain,” he said. “We know that we have our faults, but we have rot flinched from rectifying them. Some people are worried about our material strength when they see the unequalled ipagnitude of Britain’s sacrifices, and the fanatical, breathtaking way in which we threw everything into the scales to achieve victory While there is a grim realism in Britain. today, there are no gloomy doubts.”
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Northern Advocate, 22 August 1945, Page 2
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