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Pray that New Zealand is not lost.

Its greatest generation faced the impending Japanese attack on the beaches of New Zealand armed with axes and crowbars when they could find no better weapon.

Today its most shameful generation is confused and suicidal.

What a difference between the heroic, valiant, ascendant New Zealander of the 1940s and the ignominious, confused decadents of 2019! Pray that the decadents are only a small percentage of the population of New Zealand and that heroism, moral clarity, and ascendancy still prevail!

The following, recorded by James Michener, quotes a man from New Zealand, speaking to American and New Zealander troops stationed on the islands north of New Zealand, as the forces of the Japanese Empire closed in on New Zealand in the early stages of World War II:

"A frightful Japanese broadcast has steeled us for the worst. It came though two nights before I left. A Japanese professor was describing New Zealand and how it would be developed by the Japanese.”
“Maoris, as true members of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, will be allowed special priveleges. White men will be used on the farms. He said that the lush fields, the wealth, the cities were in their grasp at last. The day of reckoning with insolent New Zealanders was at hand. Immortal Japanese troops would know what to do."
"The old men--well, your wife's father and mine, for example. They are stationed at the beaches. They know they dare not retreat. They have taken their positions now."
"The home guard is next. They have been digging in furiously. They occupy prepared positions near the cities and the best beaches. The regular army will be thrown in as the fighting develops. Everyone has decided to fight until the end. The cities and villages will be destroyed."
"Many families have gone to the hills. Cars are waiting to take the others at the first sign of the Jap fleet. My wife and the kiddies have gone. Your wife...said to tell you that she will stay until the last."
"It was my humble duty to assist in preparing the defenses of Auckland. I issued several thousand picks, crowbars, and axes. There were no other weapons."

Tales of the South Pacific. New York: Fawcett, 1946, pp. 17-18.

PRAY FOR NEW ZEALAND!