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NATION WITHOUT FEAR AND BEYOND NAZI INTIMIDATION
“HITLER HAS CHALLENGED A NATION GIRL HIKERS DARN
THAT IS WITHOUT FEAR AND A PEOPLE
MILLAND CUMMINGS WHO CANNOT BE INT MIDATED. WE ENTER SOCKS FOR TROOPS
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Instead of going hiding, girls of to
UPON THE SECOND YEAR OF WAR WITH JUSTIFIABLE FAITH THAT VICTORY WILL the Rambling Club attached İBE OURS."
the Church of Scotland, in Crown- court, Covent Garden, London, meet in the church hall on Sat-
the Fighting Forces.
Soldiers, airmen and even sai-
This was the keynote of an inspiring mes-urdays to darn socks for men of sage given to Reuter yesterday by Mr. Arthur Greenwood, Minister without Portfolio, as the GEORGE SANDERS-MARGARET LINDSAY | first year of war draws to a close.
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Mr. Greenwood said: "We have been at war a year. The scales were heavily weighted against us at the start but we have survived la most dungerous and difficult
stronger to-day than a year ago. "Our control of the seas is un- challenged and unchallengeable.
LAST 4 TIMES TO DAYO period and we are immeasurably
Glorious Battleships That Rule The Sky!
the new speed planes that can sink an enemy fleet 1000
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lors take their worn socks along
to be mended by the kind-heart- ed Scots lassies, many of whom come Into London from outlying suburbs.
""The men certainly appreciate the work the girls of the Ram-
BRIGHT SPOTS ON bling Club are doing," said the
STOCK MARKET
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minister of the church, the Rev. Joseph Moffet. "At first only the young men of the congregation who had joined up came along. But now the news has got round, Gilt-edged and Kaffirs were the and we get complete strangers- brightest spots of the day on the New Zealanders and Australians, "Our air force - the 'Con-
as well as our own troops. temptibles' of the war has London Stock Exchange yesterday
"They are all welcome. We give been tested day and night, at on renewed purchases while cer- them refreshments and informal home and abroad.
tain industrials moved to higher musical items, and they enjoy "It has not only destroyed the levels. Cement shares, however, chatting with the girls." THE WORLD'S MOST THRILLING WAR DRAMA! [legend of invincibility of the were dull on reduction of the in- Mr. Moffett is getting in touch German air force but is surely terim dividend by Associated Ce- with New Zealand and Australian ment. Otherwise the markets headquarters in London to make laying the foundations of British
were quiet but cheerful. — Reu- the darning evenings air supremacy.
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"To see our people în thesp eventful days is to know Britain cannot be beaten.
"Fighters in our island fortress,| workers in our island factory, women in our island home are each by their separate but com- plementary contributions of ser- vice making this citadel of our resistance. impregnable.
"I do not believe that at'anyi time, in the long" and varied history of the British race there has ever been the stoel- like unity which binds our peo- ple together to-day.
"In Mr. Churchill we have a Prime Minister who
personifies
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and speech, actions
leadership the spirit, thoughts and impulses of a nation at war.
Human Endurance
"When our nation of free peo- ple, with its tried and proved qualities of character, is wholly,
under united in alm
inspired leudership in which it has com- plete confidence, and moved by the unshakeable and compelling conviction that its cause is the just and righteous cause of hu- manity, it becomes an uncon- querable force-a force that will scale the heights of human eri- durance and human endeavour.
"Hitler has challenged a na- tion that is without fear and a people who cannot be intimidat- ed
"We have mat and frustrat. ed, we have Infilcted and shall continue to inflict, powerful and damaging counter-blows. "More important still, we are equipping ourselves on an
im-
mense scale with formidable mili- tary and material resources which will enable us with confidence to
offensive enter upon an
after the Battle of Britain had been won by us.
Second Year
and
"We enter upon the second year of war with justifiable faith in our accumulated power with the conviction, sustained and fortified by experience, that urs will be the victory and that the cause of freedom will pre- vall."-Reuter.
It is announced in the “Gazette"
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