DARKEST PERIOD PASSED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1941, Page 6

DARKEST PERIOD PASSED

MR CHURCHILL 9N WAR OUTLOOK Britain and Empire Now in Goodly Company AFTER STANDING UNFLINCHINGLY ALONE TRIBUTES TO RUSSIA AND UNITED STATES (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, noon.) RUGBY, November 7. Britain has passed through the darkest and most perilous period of the present struggle and is once more master of her own destiny,—This was the gist of a heartening statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, at Hull, today, in the course of a three-hour tour of the Tyneside, inspecting the war effort. Referring to the Eastern front, Mr. Churchill said: “The Russians are struggling and battling vigorously, with results which are particularly significant. On the other side of the Atlantic our kith and kin are struggling to see that we get all we need, and we find ourselves in goodly company. We are moving forward and looking forward, however long the road.’’ He added: “The resolution of the British people is unconquerable. Neither sudden nor violent shocks, nor long, cold, tiring and provoking strains and lulls will alter our course. No country has made more strenuous efforts to avoid being drawn into this war, but I dare say we shall be found really anxious to prosecute it when some of those who provoked it are talking vehemently about peace. '

RESOLVED TO GO FORWARD

we are once again masters of our own destiny, nor are we any longer alone. As I tpld the House of Commons, our steadfast conduct and the crimes of the enemy have brought other great nations to our side. They are driving forward supplies across the ocean and aiding us to strike down and strangle all those that molest the passage of those supplies.”

“We are all resolved to go forward,” Mr. Churchill continued. “Vie were emphatically resolved when, a year and a half ago, we found ourselves absolutely alone—the only champion of fredom- in the whole world which remained in arms. We found ourselves with hardly any weapons left. We had rescued our Army from Dunkirk, but. it had come back stripped of all its accoutrements and all the appartus of war. Every country in the world outside this island and the Empire to which we are indissolubly attached, had given it up and had made up their minds that our life was ended and our tale told. But by unflinchingly despising the manifestations of power and threats by which we were on all sides confronted we have come through that dark and perilous passage, and now

Mr. Churchill concluded: “I have never given an assurance of speedy, easy or cheap victory. On the contrary, as you know, I have never promised anything but the hardest conditions, great disappointments and many mistakes. But I am sure that in the end all will be well for us in our island home. All will be well for the world and there will be a crown of honour for those who endured and never failbed, which history will accord them for | having set an example to the whole I human race.”