BRITAIN’S TOUGH DAYS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 279, 26 November 1945, Page 5

BRITAIN’S TOUGH DAYS

COMMISSIONER'S REMINDER TO RETURNING P.O.W.’S (P.A.) Wellington, Nov. 23. “You have said so little to anyone about your own sufferings and losses in a prison camp or internment, and have been, on the contrary, so eager to acknowledge the kindnesses which you have met in this country,” said 'the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, Sir Patrick Duff, to-dav In a to the British ex-prisoners of v.ar Bid internees, who are leaving New Zealand in the Mauneanut lie had felt rather proud of them since thev had been here he said. He warned them that although they had had many vicissitudes they must iealise when they returned to Britain that many there had endured and dated terrible things. “If things there are tough we are all in the same boat together, and you land I will always think it the finest [country in the world to live in,” he said. “Bv her demeanour and conduct in this war. notably in 1940, she gave lhe world a chance to start life afresh in the onlv wav worthwhile. It was the British Emnire, and Britain in the forefren... that hold th* fort. If she had cone in 1940 or 1941. everything would have gone— and gone for ever, and for everybody.