THE BETTER WAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1940, Page 6

THE BETTER WAY

GREAT OPPORTUNITV MISSED BY FRANCE CROWDED GALLERIES HEAR MR CHURCHILL. CONFIDENCE IN OUTCOME OF WAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, August 20. The House of Commons was crowded to hear Mr Churchill’s statement. Occupants of the diplomatic galleries included the American, Brazilian, Argentine, Egyptian, Russian and Spanish Ambassadors.

Mr Churchill said: “The dangers we face still ai‘e enormous, but so are our advantages and resources. Our people are entitled to know that there are solid grounds for the Government’s confidence and also that we have good reason to believe ourselves capable of continuing the war, if necessary alone, if necessary for years.” Referring to Somaliland, Mr Churchill said that even though metropolitan France were temporarily overrun, there was no reason why the French Navy and substantial parts of the French Army and the French Empire overseas should not have continued the struggle at our side. France might have remained one of the great combatants in the struggle and would have preserved the continuity of her life, and the French Empire might have advanced with the British Empire to the rescue of the independence and integrity of the French Motherland. Most of the other countries the Germans had overrun had persevered valiantly and faithfully.