UNITY MAY SAVE WORLD

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21992, 18 June 1941, Page 5

UNITY MAY SAVE WORLD

Prime Minister Thanks United States Massive Aid Will Tell British Official Wireless RUGBY, June 16. The Prime Minister (Mr Chlirchill), broadcasting t the United States to-night, on the occasion of his acceptance of the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law at Rochester University* recalled the fact that Rochester was the home town of his mother. “What has touched me most th this ceremony," he said, “is that sense of kinship and unity which I feel exists Between us this afternoon. “Strong tides of emotion,” said Mr ChurciliU, “and fierce surges of passion sweep the broad expanses of union in this year Of fate. In this prodigious travail there are many elemental forces, there is much heart-searching and self-questioning, some pangs, some Sorrow and some conflict of voices, but no fear. The World is witnessing the oirth throes of sublime resolve. I shall presume to confess to you that I have no doubts as to what that resolve wifi be. , “Wickedness, enormous, panoplied, embattled and seemingly triumphant, casts its shadow over Europe and Asia. Laws, customs and traditions are broken up, justice is cast from her seat, the rights of the Weak ate trampled down, the grand freedoms of which the President of the United States has spoken so movingly are spurned and chained, the whole structure of man —his genius, his initiative and his nobility—is ground down Under systems of mechanical barbarism and of Organised and scheduled terror. “For more than a year we British have stood alone, uplifted by your sympathy and respect and sustained by our own unconquerable will power and by the increasing gtoWth and hopes of your massive aid. In these British islands that look so Small upon the map, we stand faithful guardians of the rights and dearest hopes of a dozen States and nations now gripped and tormented In base and cruel servitude. Whatever happens we shall endure to the end. Could Have Avoided Oraeai “But what is the explanation of the enslavement of Europe by the German Nazi regime? How did they do it? It is but a few years since one united gesture by peoples great and small, who are now broken in the dust, would have warded off from mankind the fearful ordeal it had to undergo. But there was no unity; there was no vision. Nations were pulled down one bv one while others gaped and chattered. One by one. each in his turn, they let themselves be caught. One after another they were felled by brutal violence or poisoned from within by subtle intrigue. “And now, the old lion, with her lion cubs at her side, stands alone against

hunters who are armed with deadly weapons and impelled by a desperate, destructive rage. Every month that passes adds to the length’ and perils of the journey that will have to be made United we stand, divided we tall. Divided, the dark age returns, united, we can save asd guide the world.”