The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-21
CHURCHILL WARNS
LITTLE NATIONS
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League of Nations and stand with
the French and British against the
a~ggressor?"
For themselves, Churchill said.
the Allies were not concerned over
the eventual outcome.
Numbers dc not daunt u.s." he
cried, "but judged even by the test
of numbers, we have no reason to
doubt that once the latent and
rapidly growing power of u great
nation and empire are brought as
they must be, fully in line with the
magnificent efforts of the French
republic, then even in mass an6
weight we shall not be found want
ing"
Never before, in any naval war
Churchill declared, "have things
gone so well with u.s."
Churchill spoke a short time after
Lord Halifax, British foreign secre'
tary had asserted in a broadcast ad'
uItSo dL ACCOo IlloI IllS "o1 AoodS
was "the liberty and independence
of our own country and common.
wealth and of all European states
"Only Chance"
Halifax said Germany had lost
her "only chance of winning the
war by failing to launch a whole.
sale offensive.
He added that the only reason
"why peace cannot be made tomor'
row is that the German government
has not yet given any evidence OF
their readiness to repair the dam.
age wrought upon weaker nations
or their capacity to convince the
world that any pledge to which
they may subscribe is worth more
than the paper on which it is writ
ten"
Churchill declared Britain is
more confident day by day of our
ability to police the sea and oceans
and to keep open and active the
waterways by which we live and
along which we shall draw the
means OF victory.
cit seems pretty certain tonight
he said, that half the U-boats with
which Germany began the war have
been sunk and that their new build
ing has fallen far behind what we
expected"
Bluntly he told Europe's small
neutral states, however, that "only
with the British and French conveys
is safety to be found and declared:
Neutral ships are being sunk with.
out mercy"
1.-THE Dutch, the Belgians, the
Danes, the Swedes and above all the
Norwegians have their ships de-
stroyed whenever they can be
caught upon the high SEAS" he said.
With the British conveys, on the
other hand, Churchill said, there
is a 500 to one chance against be.
ing sunk"
The Netherlands, Belgium and
other neutrals have refused British
conveys for their shipping.
always Expecting"
we IluSI always Nc SApCCIlAlS
something new or bad from Ger.
many" the first lord of the ad.
miralty went on, "but I will venture
to say that it is with growing con
fidence that we await the further
developments or variants of their
attack.
Here we are tonight, after nearly
five months of all they can dc
against us on the seas, with the
first U-boat campaign for the time
being utterly broken, with the min
ing in good control, with
our shipping virtually undiminished
with all the oceans of the worlt
free from surface raiders.
ut is true that the D~uetschlant
escaped the clutch Of u cruisers
by the skin of her teeth, but thu
Spec (the sunken German poke
battleship Admiral Graf Spee) still
sticks up in Montevideo harbor al
a grizzly monument and as a meas
ure of the fate in store for an.
nazi warship which dares to SHOW
it's face on the waters"
The plight of the small neutrals
by contrast with that Of Franc
and Britain, is at present lament
able and will become worse,
Churchill said.
"They bow humbly and in fea
to German threats Of violence
comforting themselves meanwhile
with the thought that the Allie
will win, that Britain and Franc
will strictly observe all the rule
and conventions and that breache
Of these laws are to be expected or
ly from the German side.
each one hopes that if h
feeds the crocodile enough, tn
crocodile will eat him last. All Q
them hope that the storm will pas
before their turn comes to be dc
voured.
But I fear greatly that the storr
will not pass. 1t will rage and
will roar more loudly, ever MOI
widely. It will spread to the south
it will spread to the north.
There is no chance of a speed,
end except through united actor
and if at any time Britain an
France, wearying of the struggle
were to make a shameful peace
nothing would remain for the small
err states of Europe but to be divio
ed between the opposite, thougl
similar, barbarisms of maiden an,
bolshevism.
"The only thing that will b
most helpful in determining the
action Of neutrals is their increas