Evening star., 1940-01-21
Churchill
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many" the admiralty chief went
on, but will venture to say that
it is with growing confidence that
we await the further developments
or variants of their attack.
Mine Menace Under Control.
Here we are tonight. after nearly
five months of all they can do
against us on the seas, with the
first U-boat campaign for the time
being utterly broken. with the min
ing menace in good control, with
our shipping virtually undiminished,
with all the oceans Of the world
free from surface raiders.
ut is true that the Deutschland
escaped the clutch of our cruisers bv
the skin of her teeth, but the Spec
(the sunken German pocket battle
ship Admiral Graf Spee) still sticks
up in Montevideo Harbor as
grizzly monument and as a measure
of the fate in store for any Nazi
warship which dares to show its face
on the waters"
The plight of the small neutrals,
by contrast with that of France
and Britain, is at present lament
able and will become worse" Mr..
Churchill said.
They bow humbly and in fear
to German threats of violence, COM
forting themselves meanwhile with
the thought that the allies will
win, that Britain and France will
strictly observe all the rules and
conventions and that breaches Of
these laws are to be expected only
from the German side.
Each one hopes that If he feeds
the crocodile enough, the crocodile
will eat him last. All of them hope
that the storm will pass before
their turn comes to be devoured.
Admits Numerical Odds.
"The one thing that will be most
helpful in determining the action
Of neutrals Is their increasing sense
Of the power and the resolution Of
the western allies. These small
states are alarmed by the fact that
the German armies are more numer-
Gus and that their air force is still
more numerous, and also that both
are nearer to them than the forces
Of Great Britain and France.
Certainly it is true that we are
facing numerical odds, but that is
no new thing in our history. Very
few wars have been won by mere
numbers alone. Quality, will power,
geographical advantages, natural
and financial resources, the COM
mand Of the sea, and above all
the spontaneous surging of human
spirit IN millions of hearts, these
have proved to be the decisive fac
tors in the human story"
J Praising Finland, sublime in the
Jaws Of peril" for showing BY ex-
ample what free men can do," Mr.
Churchill said:
"The service rendered by Fin
land to mankind is magnificent
There, exposed for all the world to
see, Is the military incapacity OF
the Red Army and the Red air force
Many an illusion about Soviet Rus
STA has been dispelled In these few
fierce weeks Of fighting in the Arc
tic Circle"
Mr.. Churchill asserted that Brit
ain, 'in the bitter and increasingly
fierce conflict which lies before us
Is resolved to keep nothing back
and not to be outstripped by any
service to the common cause"
Let the great cities of Warsaw
Of Prague, Of Vienna, Danish despair
even in the midst Of their agony, >
he said. Their liberation is sure.
i THE day will come when the Joy
bells will ring again throughout
Europe and when victorious nations
masters not only of their foes but
Of themselves, will plan and build
In justice, in tradition and in free
dom . house Of many mansions
where there will be room for ALL
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