BRITISH PEOPLE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24297, 14 May 1940, Page 7

BRITISH PEOPLE

UNITY AND COURAGE MEETING THE CHALLENGE ARCHBISHOP'S APPEAL iß"itfph Official WiroiPss) (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) RUGBY. May 12. Preaching in Canterbury Cathedral, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr Cosmo Lang, made a stirring call to the nation for unitv and courage in the face of the danger threatening it. Referring to the fact that the full force of the war might at any moment reach our people's own doors, his Grace said the hour had come. "It has struck, and with it comes the testing of the nation," he said. "By the invasion of Belgium

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