HOPE FOR BRITAIN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 29 May 1930, Page 2

HOPE FOR BRITAIN

CAN AND WILL BE SAVED Writing on the eve of her husband's delivery of the British Budget, , Mrs Philip Snowden said, in an article in the "Sunday News":—"Those people who enjoy being miserable are particularly happy just now! They say our industries are going to. pieces, ,our trade is declining, the unemployed increase daily; we are decadent, .we are idle, we are losing our. nerve; our old people are .senile, our young people are impossible, the country is done for, and we might as well all be dead. I feel rather ashamed to hear this feeble whining in the ears of ,the whole world. We have our sorrows and cut 1 difficulties, of course, but we can face them and conquer them. We have brains and energy and will if we caw to use. them. Why give the impression that we have none of these things? . ,':. They lie who say we are decadent and done for. There is no freer nation on the face of the earth. There is no nation where there can be found, man for man a larger measure of honest good will to all. There is no nation which, possesses a greater gift of friendship or a more generous attitude to a fallen foe. _ There is no braver • nation, nor one with more sturdiness of. character, nor one with a more highlydeveloped social . conscience. Then away with depression and foolish fears. We are 'up against it' just now, but we have been up against it before. We triumphed over our difficulties in the past. We shall do so again. But do let us go into the struggle with smiles on our faces and slurats on our lips, leading the van, not slinking to. the rear; for that which we behove, we can do. And we may believe that Britain can and will be saved."