SECOND FRONT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1942, Page 3

SECOND FRONT

ESTABLISHMENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE ADVOCATED BY LORD BEAVERBROOK. HATRED OF THE GERMANS & JAPANESE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 21. Lord Beaverbrook, in an address today to the biggest crowd that has ever been seen in Victoria Square, Birmingham, in celebration of the Anglo-Soviet Treaty, said that the Russians undoubtedly came near to defeating the Germans last winter, and there must now be no unnecessary delay in establishing a second front. Lord Beaverbrook, after naming the Bishop of Birmingham (Dr. Barnes) and the Duke of Bedford as critics of the second front project, condemned a “little group” in Britain who opposed the shipment of munitions to Russia and raised doubts about the Russian policy. Lord Beaverbrook warned . against the attitude that only Hitler and Nazis were bad. “The German people approved at every stage as Hitler passed from crime to crime,” he said. “Let us cultivate a stern, righteous hatred for the Germans. Let us also hate the Japanese—those barbarians who give us good cause for hate —and let our contempt for the misguided Italians be as bitter and lasting as hatred itself, but keep our chief hatred for our chiefenemies—the Germans.” Lord Beaverbrook denied that bombing would win the war. “The. Army won the last war and will win this war. It is ready to avenge Dunkirk and recover the British standards that were lost on Dunkirk’s beach. Now, by hard and sharp blows and by killing and killing, is the time for us to show that we are the warriors of the world.” Lord Beaverbrook called Russia’s fight as the “greatest of the century.” The Secretary for Air Sir Archibald Sinclair, in a speech at an R.A.F. station, said that the Fighter Command sweeps over northern France were beginning to wear down the German fighter force in the West.