Evening star., 1941-06-23
Britain App|auds
Churchill P|edqe
To Help Russians
Press and Public Wary
Of Depending Too Much
On Soviet as Ally
(TeTt OF Churchill Address,
Page As.
Ev the Associated Press.


LONDON, June 23.-Britain stead
lastly cheered today her Prime Min
lster's determination to help Soviet
Russia fight Germany, but SHE'D at
placing too much reliance on the
Soviet as potent brother in arms.
Reports of Russia's resistance
along the lengthy eastern front
we're watched closely for a hint of
the Red Army's strength or weak
ness by the press and public, grown
wary because of one continental
debacle after another.
Prime Minister Churchill's ring
Ing declaration yesterday that I'VE
shall give whatever help we can to
Russia and the Russian people" and
ANY man or state who fights
Nazi-ism will have our aid" we're
seconded warmly by London news
papers.
They advocated burial of
theological differences between Brit
ain and Communist Russia for the
common purpose of crushing Adolf
Hitler.
Given Common Aim by Fate.
Russia need have no fear that we
shall weaken in our resolve here in
Britain because Hitler is now spit
ting his venom at the east" the
News Chronicle declared. Fate has
given ourselves and the Russians a
common aim-to smash the Nazis."
The Daily Mail declared There
must be no sitting back. If We do
not use the lull to the full in prep
aration we may perish e. by helping
Russia We are helping ourselves"
In his Commute radio message
to the world Mr.. Churchill urged
that all our friends and allies" take
the same course as Britain in help
ing the Soviet Union fight-an urg-
ing taken without question by Brit
ish as directed, among others, at the
United States.
-"Russia's danger is our danger"
he declared, and the danger of the
United States
He offered ANY technical and eco
nomic assistance" within Britain's
power and added:
I'VE shall bomb Germany by day
as we'll as by night in ever-increas-
ing measure, casting upon them
month by month a heavier discharge
of bombs and making the German
people taste and gulp each month
sharper dose of the miseries they
have showered upon mankind"
The Prime Minister said the Nazi
attack to the East was only
stepping stone to the attempt to
plunge the 400 to 500 millions who
live in China and the $50 millions
who live in India into that bottom
less pit of human degradation over
which the diabolical emblem of the
swastika faunts itself"
He had no good to stay of Com
munism in declaring the Soviet
Union a brother -at-arms.
mo one has been a more con-
sistent opponent of Communism
than I have for the last 25 years"
he asserted bluntly. Il will unsay
no words that I have spoken about
it."
But he declared as vigorously that
"this is no class war" and added
that Hitler wishes to destroy the
Russian power because he hopes
that if he succeeds in this he will
be able to bring back to the main
strength of his army and air force
from, the East and hurl it upon this
island, which he knows he must
conquer or suffer the penalty of
his crimes"
Pledges Government Again.
He described H1tler's move as an
other step in the process of de-
stroying his enemies one by one, by
which he has so long thrived and
prospered" and said his course led
toward a final act without which
all his conquests would be in vain;
namely, the subjugation of the
Western Hemisphere to his will and
to his system
Mr.. Churchill pledged his gov
ernment and the force of Britain's
empire again to his often-repeated
purpose
I'VE have but one aim, and one
single irrevocable purpose. We are
resolved to destroy Hitler and every
vestige of his Nazi regime; from this
nothing will turn us-nothing.
I'VE will never parley, we will
never negotiate with Hitler or any
of his men. We shall fight him by
land, we shall fight him by sea, we
shall fight him in the air, until,
with Gods help, We have rid the
earth of his shadow and liberated
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