Fiery Speech By Winston Churchill

Chronicle (Levin), 23 May 1949, Page 5

Fiery Speech By Winston Churchill

>*■ LONDON, May 20. "Wherever you turn your eyes you see fche ugly speetacle of Britons being shot or insulted in some part of the world, ' ' Mr. Churchill told an enthusiastie audience of 22,000 people at an open-air meeting in Glasgow tonight. "South American Republics twist the lion's tail in the Antarctic. Albanians mine British warships and kill our sailors, Israelite aircraft shoot down R.A.F. tighters, and the Chinese Red army fires uuon the British Fleet with impunity and drives it back. On the morrow of unconditional surrender the proud British nation, by an act of what history will eall follv, flnng itself into the hands of the Socialist Party which has brought it lower among men than it has been for centuries. "The Socialist Government does not like the small treatnient Britain receives any more than we do, but its outlook is such as to bring an inevitable and endless series of humiliations upon our heads. " Mr. Churchill expressed the hope that the title British Empire and Commonwealth of Nations would continue and he added: "In this title there is room for all and none need be repelted or slighted by its terms. Lamentable disasters have occurred in India, Burma, and Palestine which might easily have been avoided by wise and competent handling. " Mr. Churchill concluded that the only logical end to the Socialist road was the uniformity of the Communist system from the brutality and tyranny of which the Socialists tliemselves xe|coiled in disgnst.