FAR BETTER NOW
BRITISH PREPAREDNESS
MEETING WORST MALICE OF "HITLER AND HIS HUNS"
LONDON, November 12
"We are far stronger than we were ten weeks ago and far better prepared to endure the worst malice >of Hitler and his Huns than at the beginning of September," said the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Churchill, in his broadcast review of the" war to date. After referring to Herr Hitler and Herr yon Ribbentrop as "the marvellous twin contortionists," Mr. Churchill declared that these boastful, bullying Nazi personages looked hungrily at the small countries in the West and, turned a fierce but rather prudent glare upon the ancient, civilised, unoffending Belgian and Dutch nations. They chose not to molest the British fleet, which awaited attack in the j Firth of Forth, and they recoiled from France's steel front along the Maginot: Line. >■ J
Mr. Churchill added that America had translated her sympathies into action • which anyone might judge. "Men of every race and clime feel that this monstrous apparition stands between them and the forward move for which the age is ripe," he said.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 117, 14 November 1939, Page 9
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183FAR BETTER NOW Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 117, 14 November 1939, Page 9
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