“WE KNOW WE SHALL WIN”

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21207, 2 September 1940, Page 7

“WE KNOW WE SHALL WIN”

WAR JUST BEGINNING FOR BRITAIN MR AMERY’S message to the german people COfficial Wireless) (Received Sept. 2, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, September 1 Mr L. C. Amery, in the British Broadcasting Corporation’s German news service last night, addressed himself to the German people, as victims ol Hitler’s policy, which “has made wars and aggressions ends in themselves. lie told the Germans that the war which had devastated Europe had, in fact, been begun by Hitler seven years ago. It was, in very fact, Hitler’s war. He continued: “Hitler has broken the armies of his continental neighbours, but the great issues of world history are not settled by armies alone. He has raised in the conquered countries and outside, and not in Europe only, moral forces of resistance which in the long run will count for more than all his armoured divisions, all his aeroplanes. “What is more, he has still to deal with us, with the resources of our Empire. For us the war is only just beginning. Hitler may stand today where Napoleon stood after Austerlitz, but the same increasing moral resistance from those he has conquered, the same need to break the fetters of England’s blockade, the same inability to go back upon his career of aggression, will break him, as they broke Napoleon. But they will break Hitler much sooner. “Do you realise that the tide is beginning to peter out in a series of inconclusive aid raids, each of which proves the superiority of our air force in quality, and brings us nearer to the day when we shall enjoy superiority in numbers as well and can strike home at Germany far more effectively than we have done so far.

“When that day comes all the positions which Hitler captured in order to be nearer to strike at us will make it easier for us to strike at his forces and at the resources upon which he depends. • Every conquest he has made so far has only helped to make our blockade more effective.

“You were promised a short war. You have had one winter. What of the prospects of next winter ? What of the prospects of next year, when our air force will have gained the upper hand and when we shall at last have an army ready to strike home wherever the overstrained fabric of German military occupation shows signs of cracking ?

“ How long is Germany prepared to go on sustaining an impossible effort ? We shall go on to the end. We know that we shall win.”