The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
CHURCHILL WARNS
NEUTRALS ON NAILS
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so and that 1--WE have no quarre
with the Italian or the japanese PEG
ples'' reiterated the British wish tt
confine the war to Hitler and the
Nazi German power"
'It is no part of our policy to
seek war with Russia" he said.
Asserting, "all is quiet on the west
ern front and today also thus far
nothing has happened on the sea OF
in the air." he went n
Over A Million
But more than a million German
soldiers, including nearly all their
active divisions and armored divis.
ions, are drawn up ready to strike at
an hours notice all along the from
tiers Of Luxembourg, Holland and
Belgium.
cat any moment those neutral
countries may be subjected to an
avalanche of steel and fire and the
decision rests in the hands of a
haunted, morbid being who, to their
eternal shame, the German people
in their bewilderment have worship
ped as a god.
THAT is the situation in Europe
tonight.
And can anyone wonder that we
are determined to bring such a hide
Gus state of alarm and menace to
an end as soon as may be, for once
and for ALP"
He touched on the fate of Poland.
recalling his inspection of a Polish
destroyer recently, one of those which
escaped through the North Sea and
is attached to the British navy.
81 comforted myself" Churchill de-
clared, with the thought that when
these Polish sailors have finished
their work with the British navy we
will take particular are that they
once more have a home to go to-"
Exposed To World
He said the Finnish war had Eek.
posed to the whole world the ravages
which communism makes upon the
fibre of any nation which falls vic.
tim to that deadly mental and moral
disease"
Turning to the suffering of neu'
trails, Churchill asserted that zoe
neutral ships had been destroyed
and nearly 1000 neutral seamer
slaughtered in Hitler's frantic en-
deavor to terrorize all who seek to
trade with Britain.
Only yesterday, while our
sailors were carrying on stretchers
eight emaciated Dutchmen they had
rescued after six days in an open
boat, a Dutch flier, in strict neu'
trality, was shooting down an Eng
fish flier.
"And this Germany is the mon
strous power which even the very
neutrals who are suffering most are
forced to supply with a means Of
future aggression
His direct reference to intensifi
cation of the war vas
"It seems to me that intensified
ton of the struggle is to be expected
and we certainly are by no means
inclined to shrink from it,"
He alluded to the power Of the
Allied fleet by asserting that only
one in 800 ships which have taken
advantage of British and French
conveys has been sunk.
Britain has sympathy with neu'
trails, he went on, But when we
are asked to take as a matter of
course interpretations of neutrality
which give all the advantages te
the aggressor and inflict all the dis
advantages on the defenders of free,
dom, I recall a saying of the late
Lord Balfour: This is a singularly
ill-contrived world, but not so ill
contrived as that"
No Reason
He said there was no reason for
Russia to come into the war "un.
less upon the promptings of an OBJ
solete imperialistic ambition she
wishes to do so of her own volition
and of malice propense and throws
her weight upon the side of the
enemy.
Our affair is with Hltler and the
Nazi German power. There is the
head and forefront of the offending
power and it is there and there
alone that we seek to strike"
Britain did not know when thu
war started, he said, "That Ital,
would not be our enemy and w
could not be sure that Japan would
not be our enemy; many people.
had hopes that Russia would re
enter the comfy of nations and heli
shield working people all over thu
world.
But none of these things, bad O.
good, has happened"
He declared the British had no
tried to conceal from themselves thu
terrible side of war, but were con
vlnced that "our and GU:
manpower, once developed, mattel
those of the enemy"
AS Churchill spoke, informed Lon
don sources were Of the opinion tina
the Allied war council had decided
Thursday that a tightening of tn
blockade against Germany's or
ships from Scandinavia and a strong
er contraband control in the Pacifi
were the best means of closing gap
In the blockade.
The British said that two Gel
n man M~eSSerSchmitt p1anes had bee