Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 7, 2006 14:14:09 GMT 12
The very famous phrase from the speech made on the 4th of September 1939 by New Zealand Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage.
But how many of you have heard the full speech? Like Chamberlain's speech, Savage's is almost always truncated when broadcast in documentaries these days, down to a few famous sentences.
Here is a transcript of the longest version of the speech I have tracked down. I'm unsure if even this is the longest version but suspect it might be.
Savage was very ill with cancer when he recorded it, and it was made from his sickbed. His depouty Peter Fraser had actually done NZ's declaring of war for him the night before. Here it is:
"I am satisfied that nowhere will the issue be more clearly understood than in New Zealand, where, for almost a century, behind the sure shield of Britain, we have enjoyed and cherished freedom and self Government.
Both with gratitude to the past, and with confidence in the future, we range ourselves without fear beside Britian.
Where she goes, we go.
Where she stands, we stand.
We're only a small and young nation, but we are one and all a band of brothers. And we march forward with a union of hearts and wills to a common destiny."
Quite stirring really, isn't it? Does anyone know, was there more to it? Perhaps there was at the beginning?
But how many of you have heard the full speech? Like Chamberlain's speech, Savage's is almost always truncated when broadcast in documentaries these days, down to a few famous sentences.
Here is a transcript of the longest version of the speech I have tracked down. I'm unsure if even this is the longest version but suspect it might be.
Savage was very ill with cancer when he recorded it, and it was made from his sickbed. His depouty Peter Fraser had actually done NZ's declaring of war for him the night before. Here it is:
"I am satisfied that nowhere will the issue be more clearly understood than in New Zealand, where, for almost a century, behind the sure shield of Britain, we have enjoyed and cherished freedom and self Government.
Both with gratitude to the past, and with confidence in the future, we range ourselves without fear beside Britian.
Where she goes, we go.
Where she stands, we stand.
We're only a small and young nation, but we are one and all a band of brothers. And we march forward with a union of hearts and wills to a common destiny."
Quite stirring really, isn't it? Does anyone know, was there more to it? Perhaps there was at the beginning?
