CONGRESS MOVED
BY MR CHURCHILL’S SPEECH BURST OF ENTHUSIASM AND DEEP CHUCKLES OF MIRTH. AMERICAN AND BRITISH COMMENT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 26. Mr Churchill’s speech moved Congress members to a wild burst of enthusiasm and deep chuckles of mirth, says the “New York Times” Washington correspondent. The speech was typical of Mr Churchill, full of bubbling humour, bitter , denunciation of the totalitarian enemies, stern courage and hard facts. Many Congress members called the speech the greatest they hsd ever heard. After leaving the Capitol, Mr Churchill remarked: “I want to see the crowd,- too.” He then left his baffled secret service guards, and instead of boarding his car, walked alone across the street toward the roped-off crowd and smilingly waved his hat. He was rewarded with tremendous cheering. When his car passed through the thronged streets he was repeatedly cheered.
American opinion appears to be summed up in the words of the “New York Herald Tribune” which says: “The glowing phrase, measured cadence, acrid sarcasm, and the high- conviction that Mr Churchill has brought to the common cause of freedom for humanity was never more impressive nor more moving than when he spoke to Congress. This a great moment in history when yesterday he spoke with us, and as one of us, to both. peoples, and to all now joined with them. Here is unity for the war of an effective and practical kind meaning more than all plans, projects and exhortations could mean.” The “Manchester Guardian,” commenting on the reception given to Mr Churchill, which was heard in Britain by millions of listeners, says: “The applause of Congress showed better than a score of dispatches how American feeling runs —a great reception for Mr Churchill, cheers for Russia and crashing cheers for the fight to a finish. Americans are all set.”
It is reported from Ottawa that there is great activity as preparations go forward for a great welcome to Mr Churchill for his address to the Canadian Parliament on Tuesday. '
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1941, Page 3
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