The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-10

troops they could hardly do more than harass the invading forces.
 German insistence on French collaboration" was believed here to mean that Germany still had hope of obtaining the Bizerte naval base in Tunisia, 'on the other side of the narrow Sicinan Straits from Italy, and perhaps the French fleet.
 (Stockholm reported Saturday night that Germany had forced Denmark to surrender large num- Der of torpedo boats, ostensibly for use in patroling the Baltic.
 Bulgaria was regarded, for the moment, the likeliest path of a German march to strike a blow at Greece's back.
 However, the very successes of Greece in Albania and Britain in Africa that might impel Hitler to strike. were calculated also to stit1- en Turkeys attitude toward a Ger man invasion of either Bulgaria or Greece.
 Further the firm attitude of Mar shal Philippe Petain in France, 1n resisting demands of Pierre Laval for dictatorial power, was calculated both to incline Hitler toward pre- mature action and to leave him un- certain whether too much pressure on France might not have the op- posite effect from that he desired.
 British Like Genoa Blows
 Newspapers exulted over the bom- bardment of Genoa and likened 1t to 8 German bombardment of Southampton.
 The Daily Mail called the hOn- bardment one of the most daring naval actions of the war and added: !:
 s"The defense of such strip ot channel between the Italian main land and Corsica should be well within the competence of even a third-rate naval power, to say noun ing of one which claims mastery of the entire inland sea-"
 Churchill in his speech yesterday showed his mastery of oratory as ne expressed his loathing of Hitler ana contempt for Mussolini.
 In the five months since his last broadcast, he said, Certainly our affairs have prospered in several directions far better than most of us would have ventured to hope.
 "We stood our ground and faced the two dictators in the hour ol what seemed their overwhelmlng triumph and we have shown our selves capable so far of standing up against them alone" he said. Hitler did not dare to attempt the invasion of Britain after the defeat inflicted on his air force last August and September, Churchill salo' though he had every need to do so and had made vast preparations.
 "Boggled in this grandoise pro feet, he sought to break the spirit of the British nation by the bomb ing first of London and afterward of our great cities" he continued. Tt has now been proved to the ad- miration of the world and Of our friends in the United States that this form of blackmail and murder and terrorism, far from weakening the spirit of the British nation, has only reused it to a more intense and universal flame than was ever seen before in a modern commun- ity." -
 Air Force Grows Stronger
 The Royal Air Force grows stronger, he said, and though Ger man attacks may be sharper they will be shorter in night raids. So if Britain,s first victory was the re- pulse of the invader, he said, the second was the illustration of the German "acts of terror and of tor ture against our people at home"
 Then referring to Greece, he said:
 Meanwhile abroad, in October, wonderful thing happened. One of the two dictators, the crafty, cold blooded, black hearted Italian who had thought to gain an empire on the cheap by stabbing fallen France in the back-he got into trouble.
 "Without the slightest provoca- ton, stirred on by lust of power and brutiSh greed, Mussolini at- tackled and invaded Greece only to be hurled back ignoiniously by the heroic Greek army"
 Then, he said, while Mussolini was "writhing and snarting under the Greek lash" the British at- tackled in Africa.
 Tn eight weeks. he said, the Elm. pire army had beaten the Italian army in North Africa, Egypt and the suez Canal were safe and Brit- ain had In BenghAzi Q strategic point Of high consequence.
 Churchill referred to the vIEts of Wendell l.. Willkie and Harry Hops kins, calling WIlikle the champion Of the Republican party.
 IIe asserted that iF attacks on Malta the Germans had lost SO Of ib0 dive bombing planes they had