WAR OF FREEDOM.
AGAINST SLAVERY AND
DESPOTISM
SPEECH BY GENERAL SMUTS
•Australian and N 7.. Cahle> Association.'. (Received May 2, 1.55 p.m.)
LONDON, May 1
In his speech General Smuts said thai critics before the war had said that the country Avas corrupted by wealth : thai we had' grown soft, that the day of test would find us wanting. When the day of trial came we showed what free men could' do m. the greatest conflict of the world. The Britishers are the financial, moral, and m a great sense the military mainstay of tho whole alliance. The enemy calculated upon apathy, even disruption among the free nations of the commonwealth, of the Empire, but Imperial free men came forward and did their duty, not merely to help the Mother Country, but because they felt that when liberty was endangered m Europe it was endangered all over the world. America joined because this-waf-a war of freedom against slavery and military despotism.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14287, 2 May 1917, Page 6
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