"THE NAZI SYSTEM MUST GO”

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21051, 1 March 1940, Page 7

"THE NAZI SYSTEM MUST GO”

STIRRING SPEECH BY MR ANTHONY EDEN MUST BE END TO ERA OF BROKEN FAITH (Official Wireless) (Received March 1, 10.50 a.m.) RUGBY, February 29 Mr Anthony Eden, Dominions Secretary, speaking at Liverpool today, said:— “ This is a life and death struggle with a remorseless foe. Let us have no illusion about that. The Nazi system and all it stands for must go. There must be an end to the era of broken faith and political perjury must be shown to have had its day. “If there is to he any future for the human race the Nazi system must go. Until Hitlerism and the international gangsterdom for which he stands are utterly and finally destroyed there is going to be neither security for the present nor hope for the future. For a free people no fate could he worse than servitude to Nazism. ' W e were reluctant to take up the challenge, hut now we are in it we will see it through to the end. No other course is possible and to attempt anything else would he to lose the present and betray the future.” Mr Eden reviewed in a series of impressive descriptive passages, the scale and variety of the Dominions’ effort in the war and paid a warm tribute to the spirit in which the Dominions were associating themselves with the Governments of Britain and France in opposition to aggression and tyranny. Mr Eden gave a first-hand account of the memorable scenes of welcome to the Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders in which he participated. Of the Empire air training scheme, he said: “There will soon be a continuous flow of pilots, observers and gun crews, numbered not in thousands, but in tens of thousands every year. I have no hesitation in saying that in conception and execution there has been no parallel in the world’s history for this scheme.” He sounded a warning that after long months of relative inaction on the land fronts there might soon he a movement, hut said that the respite so far had given Britain a chance to forge her weapons. Mr Eden related as typical of the Dominions’ spirit the remark which a soldier from “ down under ” had made to him: “ It seems that there is a job of work to be done.” He added: “ W ith God’s help it will he done.”