Evening star., 1941-06-16
Churchill Says U. 5.
And Britain, United, ,
Can Save World
Accepts Rochester U.
Degree in Two-Woy
Truns-Oceun Broadcast
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, June Is CVia radio).-
Winston Churchill declared in a
broadcast to the United States to-
day that divided the Dark Ages
shall return; united we can guide
and save the world.
His remarks, carried by the N. B.
c. blue network, were in acceptance
of an honorary L. L, D. degree con-
ferred en- him by Rochester Uni
versity.
1T has given me comfort and
inspiration" he said, ito feel that
I think as you do and that our
hands are joined across the ocean
and that our pulses throb and beat
as one"
He made reference to his Amer
lean forbears and saw in the
awarding of the degree "an express
sion of American confidence-and
shall l say affection"
Mr.. Churchill referred to the fact
that his mother was born in Roches-
ter and that his grandfather,
Leonard Jerome, lived there for
many years
"~ B" The Jeromes were rooted
for many generations in American
soil and fought in WaShingtons
armies for independence of the
American colonies and the founda-
ton of the United States.
L expect I was on both sides
then," Mr.. Churchill added, "and
l must say 1 feel on both sides of
the Atlantic Ocean now"
The Prime Minister said, THE
world is witnessing the birth throes
of a sublime resolve" and that he
had no fear as to what that re-
solve would be "as it stirs means
souls
On both sides of the Atlantic, he
said, we all feel that our future and
that of many generations is at stake.
We are sure, he added, that the
character of human society will be
shaped by the resolves we make and
deeds We do
He said that We should be proud
We have been born at such & time
ana at such an age to PERM, us to
90 the service we are permitted to
do.
The freedoms of which the Presi-
dent of the United States has so
grandly spoken are being ground
down. MI. Churchill said.
I'VE stand the faithful guardian
of the rights and dearest hopes of a
dozen states and nations now
grlpped in servitude.
Whatever happens we shall en-
dure to the end
He dWelt at length on the seryi-
tude" of the nations which were
pulled down one by one"
One after another they were
felled by brutal violence" he said.
Not so easily shall the lights of
freedom die" he said, but time is
short.
United we stand; divided we fall"
he concluded.
In presenting the degree, DR..
Alan Valentine, president of the
university, eulogized Mr.. Churchill
as the symbol of Britain aroused -
Accepting the award for the
Prime Minister was Noel Hall, Brit
ish Minister to Washington.
In his commencement address,
Undersecretary of War Robert P.
Patterson predicted the current war
would be a long one.
Asserting that peace "is the great
est blessing possessed by man." Mr..
Patterson said, however, that I'VE
have to work for it and once we
have it we must keep on working
in order to hold it,
In his citation, DR.. Valentine
praised Mr.. Churchill's war efforts
and added: May peace with free
dom be your crowning work
I'VE who remain here" he said,
must dedicate ourselves to the
great task that this Government by
the people shall not perish from
the earth"