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“Did not Mr Churchill, when, with [ the nation’s unanimous acclaim, he took up the burden of leadership, warn us that he had nothing to offer but ‘blood and toil and tears and sweat’; and did not the nation willingly accept that doom ? Now events are exacting an immediate instalment of
that grievous debt, and it is for us to meet it with a cheerful brow and with a faith, undismayed by temporary discomfiture, in the ultimate reward of staunchness and sacrifice. ! Nothing that has been lost is irrecoverable. What it means is that we shall
I have a longer and harder row to hoe
; than we had hoped for; and as for the enemy, he knows that even if he were completely to overrun the Balkans that must still leave him as far as ever from overthrowing the great obstacle to the achievement of his ambitions, the might of the British Em- : pire.”—“Daily Telegraph,” London.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4562, 20 April 1942, Page 3
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