AID WILL COME TO NEW ZEALAND

Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22214, 6 March 1942, Page 5

AID WILL COME TO NEW ZEALAND

Assurance By Sir Stafford Cripps Defence Is Vital Britain Has Mighty Allies By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrlghi (12.10 a.m.) LONDON. Mar. 5. "We realise how vital is the defence of Australia and New Zealand and the defeat of the Japanese enemy. We can and will come to your aid,” said Sir Stafford Cripps in a broadcast to-night, "The tide of war has not yet reached its lowest level. Were that the whole story it would appear disheartening, but it is not. Britain has mighty Allies on her side. This alliance of people, to-day battling with the forces of evil from one end of the world to the other, cannot be defeated unless it allows fainthearted people to sap its strength. You and I know what hard and difficult times lie ahead. We also know that from the sufferings of war will be born a new civilisation —not a new order or co-prosperity sphere built on the sufferings and slavery of peoples by some dominant race which seeks to proclaim its superiority by inhuman acts of violence. “We shall fight on through all setbacks, through the defeats and disappointments, to make living worth while. At one period of the war, after the collapse of France and when the British Commonwealth faced the Germans alone, we in Britain were troubled with the urgent threat of invasion. Australia and New Zealand are in a similar state of mind to-day. We realise how vital is the defence of Australia and New Zealand. We reflect with pride and gratitude on the help you have given on the fields of war and are still giving. We can and will come to your aid.”