The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
CHURCHILL SAYS
BRITAIN TO NEED
MORE u. S. ARMS
Cont ,ued From Page One)

he made an earlier impromptu
talk in the open air.
Hopkins and Mrs. Churchill were
in his party.
During the afternoon tour, Hop
kins watched carefully a parade
of air raid precautions services
and evidently was impressed with
the equipment and the enthusiasm
of the workers.
In his speech tonight, Churchill
declared himself confident of Brit
aims ultimate victory, stated that
his aim was to remove Hitlerism
from Europe, and insisted that If
Hitler had found invasion of Britain
difficult in July and September 1t
would not become easier by Feb
ruary, March or April.
Millions Armed
Britain, he said, has millions OF
armed men and scores of we'll
equipped units capable Of meeting
a landing force and engaging them
with good prospects of success.
He told his audience they could
hold no hopes of an easy passage
before us lie dangers. l hardly
like to say as great as those
through which we have PASSED.
but at any rate dangers which if
neglect anything will be fatal,
mortal.
Before us lie many months Of
having to endure bombardment of
our cities and industrial areas with
out the power to make equal re-
ply. Before us lie sufferings and
tribulations. l am not one who
pretends that smooth courses are
open to us or that our experiences
during this year are going to be
deprived of terrible characteristics.
But what the end will be I can
not have the slightest doubt" the
prime minister then declared en-
phatically.
1.-THE two dictators are already
endeavoring to feed their people
with every kind of optimistic tale
but here we have made up our
minds: Here we look at facts with
unillusioned eyes because we are
conscious Of the rightness of our
cause and because we are deter
mined that whatever the cost,
whatever suffering, we will not fail
mankind at this turning point in
it's fortunes"
Turning to Hitler's invasion
chances Churchill declared:
THAT bad man has never had
so great a need as he has now to
strike Britain from his path. He
is master of a great part of Europe.
His armies can move almost wher-
ever they will upon the continent.
He holds down eight or ten coun-
tries by force, by secret police and
by still more odious local quislings.
But every day this occupation
of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland,
Norway, Denmark, Holland. Bel
GUM, France-and presently per-
haps Italy-lasts, is built up a vol
ume of hatred for the Nazi creed
and for the German name which
generations and perhaps centuries
hardly will efface."
1T is for Herr Hitler a matter
of supreme consequence to break
down the resistance of Great Brit
ain and thus rivet effectively the
shackles he has prepared for the
people of Europe. But it is one
thing to have a need and another
to be able to satisfy that need.
1--WE in this island stand four.
square in the path of European
d%ictators. Their threats will not
apall us. 1t is certain that if Herr
Hitler found the invasion of this
island difficult in July, he found il
more difficult in September: and
if he found it difficult in Septem-
Der, it will not have become easier
by February or March or April.
But remember that the price
of safety is eternal vigilance. The
reason one feels a confidence that
this mans concentrated hatred will
not be effective against u island
is because every one of us is uu
and doing: Is because there will
be %ceaseless attention paid by all
our forces to every sign of enemy