Evening star., 1941-02-10
Churchill Seeks u. S. Tools
Wants No Men Now, Nor Any Year He
Can Foresee, Prime Minister Declares

LONDON, Feb. 3 (P1 Via Ra-
dio).-The tert OF Prime Minis
ter Churchilps address tollo,DS:
Five months have passed since I
spoke to the British nation and en-
pire in a broadcast. In wartime
there is a lot to be said for the motto,
Deeds, not words" All the same,
it is a good thing to look around
from time to time and take stock,
and certainly our affairs have pros
pered in several directions during
these last four or five months. far
better than most of us would have
ventured to hope.
We have stood our ground and
faced the two dictators in the hour
of what seemed their overwhelming
triumph, and we have shown our
selves capable so far of standing up
against them. alone.
AlbCI l4lC 0t1Caoo VI NAiS
German air force by our fighters
in August and September, Herr Hit
Ter did not dare attempt the inva-
sion of this island, although he had
made vast preparations. Baff1ed N
this grandioSe project, he sought TO
break the spirit of the British ma
ton by bombing, first of London,
afterwards of our great cities.
It has now been proved to the
admiration of the world and to our
friends in the United States that
this form of blackmaff and murder
and terrorism, so far from weaken
ing the spirit of the British nation.
has only reused it to more intense
and universal flame than was ever
seen before in any modern COM
munity.
The First War Aim
Is to Be Worthy.
The whole British Empire has
been proud of the mother country,
and they long to be with us over
here in even larger numbers. We
have been deeply conscious of the
love for us which has flown from
the dominions of the crown across
the broad ocean, spaces. There is
the first of our war aims: To be
worthy of that love and to pre-
Serve%it.
All through these dark winter
the enemy have had the
power to drop three or four tons Of
bombs on us for every ton We could
send to Germany in return. We are
arranging so that presently this
will be rather the other way round.
But meanwhile London and our big
cities have had to stand a pound
ing
They remind me of the British
squares at Waterloo. They are not
squares of soldiers. They do not
wear scarlet coats. They are just
ordinary English, Scottish and Welsh
folks. men, women and children,
standing steadfastly together. But
their spirit is the same: their glory
is the same, and in the end their
victory will be greater than far
famed Waterloo.
All honor to the civil defense Serv-
ices of all kinds, emergency and
regular, volunteer and professional,
who have helped our people through
this formidable ordeal, the like of
which no civilized community has
ever been called upon to undergo.
Services of Police
Praised by Churchill.
If I mention only one OF these
services tonight. namely, the police,
it is because many tributes have
been paid already to the others.
But the police have been in it every
where, all the time, and as work
ing woman wrote to me in letter,
What gentlemen they are
More than tWo-thirds of the VIM
ter has now gone, and so far we
have had no serious epidemic. In
deed. there is no increase of illness
in spite of the improvised conditions
of the shelter. That is most credita-
BILE to our local medical and sani-
tary authorities, to our devoted nurs-
ing staff and to the ministry of