WAR RISKS STILL

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11423, 20 January 1923, Page 12

WAR RISKS STILL

SIR lAN HAMILTON ON THE MODERN CROMWELL. “The powers of hell are not drawn; they are only hanked said General Sir lan Hamilton, unveiling a tablet at the Finchley Hospital extension, dedicated to the memory of Finchley and Whetstone men who fell in the wav. It was gooa for ns, he said, to think of the terrors which We had passed, and to remember the words “Lest ,we forget.” . “We have not yet forgotten,” ho proceeded, “as ‘was proved recently, when a man who had more power in thiß country than any man has had since Cromwell was suddenly hurled from power because the people, rightly or wrongly, thought lie was running risks of war; because they felt that before their memorials were finished someone was trying to sow a fresh crop of graves. “His fall showed that tho people did not want to run risks of any more war. But if foreign nations were to presume to try and take advantage of the desire for peace recently manifested by our people, I am sure that the spirit of those who fell would rise up a.nd enter into us again, and we should offer our lives in support of our country just as they did.”