MEETING DANGER

Waikato Independent, Volume XL, Issue 3763, 27 September 1940, Page 3

MEETING DANGER

BRITAIN’S CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT TRIBUTES TO MR CHURCHILL “We may well feel thankful,” stated the “Yorkshire Post” in May, “that at this moment we have not got a large army desperately engaged in Norway. If Mr Chamberlain showed caution over the Norwegian campaign, it was because he and his advisers had clearly before them the imminence of Hitler’s savage new stroke. “With this example of prescience to his lasting credit, Mr Chamberlain quits an office in which he has given to his country every ounce of his energy, his conviction and his thought. Mr Churchill assumes a tremendous responsibility; we know that lie will bear it like the born fighter he is. It remains for the country to put aside all doubts and divisions and, steeling its nerves to calmness and its muscles to herculean toil, to offer its new Prime Minister the united ardour of a free people whose will to victory no ordeal can quench. The nation will welcome his realism as a tonic summons from a man who understands what fighting is. Behind the gradually rising anxiety which finally forced a change of Government there was a widespread feeling in the country that our leaders were allowing us to take too easy a view of the war. “Mr Churchill will make, no such mistake. He knows, and the country must know, that a new page in ' Britain’s history will be written in fire and blood during the next few weeks and months. What can we do, each one of us here at home, to show that we are resolved to play our small parts?”