HEAVY BLOWS AT ITALY BRITAIN'S AIMS BRITAIN AND U.S.A. WOMEN'S TRANSPORT UNIT INSPECTED

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 93, 16 October 1940, Page 9

HEAVY BLOWS AT ITALY

BRITAIN'S AIMS

BRITAIN AND U.S.A.

WOMEN'S TRANSPORT UNIT INSPECTED

WHEN VICTORY IS WON

GENERAL STATEMENT SOON

CAUSE UNDERSTOOD

(British Official Wireless.) (Received October 16, 11.40 a.m.) RUGBY, October 15. Mr. Churchill was asked in the House of Commons whether, in anticipation of the time when Britain and her allies would be in a position to resume the military offensive, he would take an early opportunity of stating their aims in general terms. He replied that this was being borne in mind. Mr. Churchill added that the time had not come when an official declaration could be made on the war aims beyond the very carefully-considered statements which had already been made public. He did not think the opinion prevailed anywhere that Britain was fighting merely to maintain the status quo. Britain was fighting to survive. "When our capacity to do that is more generally recognised throughout the world —when conviction about it becomes more general—then we shall be in a position to take a further view of what we shall do with victory when it is won," he said.

It was urged upon the Prime Minister that an important factor in victory would be an assurance felt throughout the world that Britain stood ready to lead in organising a better world.

It was pointed out in reply that there was great danger in making statements which were not of a very general character, and Mr. Churchill voiced his coru viction that world opinion was in little doubt about the British cause and wholeheartedly endorsed it. FOR SANER AND MORE BEAUTIFUL WORLD. The question of the war aims v/as subsequently raised on the adjournment, and Mr. Duff Cooper, replying for the Government, said that while everyone was aware for what Britain ! was fighting, that was a different mat- I ter from a formal statement of war aims. Any statement that the Government might make must be one which would command the greatest possible unanimity not only among parties in Britain but also in the great Dominions and among those who were friends and allies of Britain. The war, said Mr. Duff Cooper, was |

COMPLETE UNION

URGED BY LABOUR M.P.

NEED FOR SECURITY

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received October 16, 1 p.m.) LONDON, October 15. In an article in the "Daily Express," Colonel J. C. Wedgwood, the Labour member of the House of Commons, recommends not only an alliance between Great Britain and the United States, but complete union, with one sovereign Parliament, a common Foreign Office, Colonial Office, defence service, and Supreme Court, and free trade and a stable currency.

• Colonel Wedgwood says: "An alliance is not enough. One Union Government can alone give security in the long struggle before us. No State, not even Britain, can hope to recover alone. Left alone, all seem certain to sink to barbarism and anarchy. Many here are prejudiced against Americans and many more subconsciously sympathise with the totalitarian States. The working class realises, as others must, that as the war goes on, all will become poorer and increasingly in need of a great powerful State to feed, save, and restore them."

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, October 14.

The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Lloyd, inspected in the quadrangle of the Colonial Office a Kenya unit of a mechanised transport corps numbering about 60 women. On the khaki uniforms of some of them were decorations for service in the last 1 war.

destroying a great part of the political, social, and economic as we'll as the material structure of the world, and it would be a duty after victory was achieved to rebuild a better, saner, and more beautiful fabric. It was their duty even now to be thinking how it could be rebuilt.

Speaking of political organisation, the Minister pointed to the British Commonwealth of Nations as a great example for a combination of nations.