“AGGRESSIVE SPIRIT”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1940, Page 6

“AGGRESSIVE SPIRIT”

NAILS IN HITLER'S COFFIN. “The inspiration of Mr Churchill s aggressive spirit and clear will to win. mid of Lord Halifax's noble and moving speeches on the issues at stake in I this war, ought not to come to us us [rare and refreshing treats. The relentless thrust and urge to victory which Mr Churchill manifests at the Admiralty and in all his speeches ought <o be animating all our departments in war time.’ said Sir Archibald Sinclair, (he British Liberal leader, in a recent address. Whatever their opinions of Mr Chamberlain’s Government there were no limits to the co-operation which Liberals were prepared to give. “But cur help would be worth much less if we resigned ourselves to being the silent camo followers of the Government," added Sir Archibald, who continued: "I give it you as my own opinion—an opinion also expressed by no less an authority than Admiral Sir RoG er Keyes in the House of Commons that if Mr Churchill had been taken into the Government and given the Admiralty a few months earlier when we were loudly demanding it. that fine ship the Royal Oak and its gallant crew would never have been lost in Scapa Flow. Six months of Mr Churchill before the war would have i teen six nails in Hitler's coflm.