TEN WEEKS OF WAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1939, Page 6

TEN WEEKS OF WAR

MR WINSTON CHURCHILL’S SURVEY

Conflict Going Well For Allies NO POSSIBILITY OF TRUCE WITH HITLERISM FREEDOM OF ALL NATIONS AT STAKE (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 12.47 p.m.) RUGBY, Xw-ntte 12. Broadcasting tonight, the First Lord of the ;-.din.raltj (Air Winston Churchill) reviewed the first ten weeks of the war. which, lie said. had. turned out well for the Allies. The power of the Empire and the French Republic to restore the life of Poland and Czechoslovakia was growing every da\. Britain and France had tried in many ways to prevent war and for the sake of peace had let many things happen that, ought not to have happened. Now that war was forced on them, Britain would persevere in making war until, the other side had had enough. ‘‘You may take it for certain,” he said, ‘‘either that all Britain, and France stand for in the modern world will go down, or Hitler and the Nazi regime and the recurring Garman or Prussian menace to Europe will be broken and destroyed. That is the way the matter lies and everybody had better make up their minds to that solid, sombre fact.” Mr Churchill paid a tribute to the calm resolution of the British people. In the weeks which had elapsed since the outbreak of war. Britain had got herself into fighting trim. The Naw and Air Force were stronger and the Army more numerous.

U-BOATS CONTROLLED i The U-boats had been controlled and | British world-wide trade was proceedin in four thousand vessels, of which 2.500 were constantly at sea. The Air Force's superiority had been proved. We had shot down' fifteen Gorman oversea raiders without losing one machine. In combats we had a marked advantage in a higher range of science applied to war. Italy, which we had feared would be drawn from her historic partnership with Britain and France, has preserved strict neutrality,” Mr Churchill continued. '‘No quarrel has developed between us and Japan. These two Powers, which had joined Germany in the Anti-Comintern Pact, find it difficult to accommodate themselves to the change of front towards Bolshevism which Herr Hitler and his bad adviser, Herr von Ribbentrop, have perpetrated. “No one can .underrate the importance of the treaty between Britain, France and Turkey. THE RUSSIAN BEAR ‘‘The Soviet Government, embodied in the formidable figure of Stalin, has barred off once and for ever all Nazi dreams of advance in the East. The left paw of the bear bars Germany from the Black Sea. The right paw disputes with her control of the Bal-

tic. Nazi Germany is barred off from the East and has to conquer the .British Empire and the French Republic or to perish in the attempt.” Referring to Holland and Belgium. Mr Churchill said these nations had been given a solemn guarantee by the Nazis, but their frontiers had been crowded with vast numbers of German troops. “I shall not attempt ,to prophesy whether the frenzy of a cornered maniac will drive Herr Hitler into the worst of all his crimes,” said Mr Churchill, “but without doubt the fate of Holland and Belgium, like that of Poland, Czechoslovakia and Austria, will be decided by the victory of the British Empire and the French Republic. If we are conquered, all will be enslaved and the United States will be left single-handed to guard the rights of men. If we are not destroyed, all these countries will be rescued and restored to life and freedom.” The Nazi Government, Mr Churchill declared, could not see one friendly eye in the whole world. Even Russia regarded the Nazis with a flinty stare. “Let us take courage amid our perplexities and perils,” Mr Churchill declared, “for it may well be that the final extinction of a baleful domination will pave the way to a broader solidarity of all men in all lands than we could ever have planned if we had not marched together through fire.”