PRELUDE TO ACTION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 60, 28 March 1944, Page 4

PRELUDE TO ACTION

THE yoice which has inspired Britons the world over during the past four and a half years has once again been heard. The Empire's great fighting war leader the Right Hon. Winston Churchill, has spoken on things that are past and on things that are yet to come. Time £nd again his voice has been the clarion call which has stimulated the English . morale, stiffened our determination and reinforced our courage. Almost always when great Prime Minister broadcasts to the world his voice conveys more than a mere message, it is the signal for great events, the zero hour for action and the forerunner of great things. It is natural to assume then, that his latest oration is not merely one of international courtesy. Into his words may be read the deep meaning of the growing might of thjei combined Allied forces, the tremendous striking force of the air machine which fights for democracy, and the ever nearing approach of the day of reckoning for Hitlerism and all it stands for. Churchill's voice speaks vibrantly of the second front, of the emancipation of enslaved peoples, and of the coming of individual freedom to all. His voice heralds the dawn of the new day for countless thousands but it foretells the doom of night for those guilty of the infamy of the latest war of aggression. Germany's whole conduct of the war, her propaganda campaign and her persecution of the weak, have'within the last twelve months ' undergone a noteworthy change. No longer does her home radio blatantly speak of world victory for the Fatherland; gone the assurance which characterised Goebbels pronouncements and the frenzied indictments of the power-maddened Hitler. Bereft of her only European ally, of any consequence the voice of Germany is to-day merely that of any cornered bully—a whining remonstrance in a futile endeavour to clear herself of any blame for provoking the war. Churchill's latest broadcast can be calculated to strike fresh terror into the hearts of Hitler's Nazi clique for undoubtedly, as in the past it is but a new prelude to action.