Evening star., 1941-06-23
Text of Churchill Speech
British Premier Declares Nozi Attack
Is Prelude to Invasion of England

grinding up human lives and
trampling down the homes and
the rights of hundreds of millions
of men.
Moreover, it must be fed, not
only with flesh but with blood.
So now this bloodthirsty gutter
snipe must launch his mechan-
lied armies upon new fields Of
slaughter, pillage and devaSta-
ton. Poor as are the Russian
peasants, workmen and soldiers,
he must steal from them their
daily bread. He must devour
their harvests. He must rob them
of the oil which drives their
plows, and thus produce a famine
without example in human his
tory, and even the carnage and
ruin which his victory, should he
gain 1.-THE has not gained 1t
yet-will bring upon the Russian
people shall in itself be only
stepping stone to the attempt to
plunge the 400,000,000 or 50O,-
100000 who live in China and
the 35O.0OO, 900 who live in India,
into that bottomless pit of human
degradation over which the dla-
bolic emblem of the sWastlka
flouts itself.
Sees Heel Clicking,
Dandified PrussianS.
1t is not too much to say here
this summer evening that the
lives and the happiness OF a
thousand million additional hu-
man beings are now menaced
with brutal Nazi violence. This
is enough to make us hold our
breath. But presently I shall
show you something else that
lies behind and something that
touches very nearly the lie OF
Britain and of the United States.
The Nazi regime is indistin-
guishable from the worst features
of Communism. 1t is devoid OF
all principle except appetite ana
racial domination. 1t excels IN
all forms of human wickedness,
in the efficiency of its cruelty
and ferocious aggression. No one
has been a more consistent oppo-
nent of Communism than I have
for the last 25 years. I will unsay
no words that I have spoken
about it. But all this fades away
before the spectacle which is now
unfolding. The past with lts
crimes, its follies and its tragedles
flashes away.
I see Russian soldiers standing
on the threshold of their native
land guarding the fields which
their fathers have titled from
time immemorial. I see them
guarding their homes, where
mothers and wives pray. All, yes.
for there are times when all pray
for the safety of their loved ones,
for the return of the bread
winner. of the champion, OF their
protector. I see the 10000 villages
in Russia where the means OF
existence is wrung so hardly from
the soil, but where there are still
primordial human joys, where
maidens laugh and children play.
I see advancing upon all this
invidlous onslaught the Nazi war
machine, with its changing, heel
clicking. dandifled Prussian
officers, its crafty expert agents,
fresh from the cutting and cow
ing down of a dozen countries.
I see also the dull, drilled. docile,
british masses of the Hun
soldiery coming on like a swarm
of crawling locuSts. I see the
German bombers and fighters in
the sky, still smarting from many
a British whipping, and they are
likely to find. they believe, an
easier and safer prey.
Any State Who Fights
Nazi-ism Will Be Aided.
Behind all this storm, I see
that small group of venomous
men who planned, organized and
launched this cataract of horrors
upon mankind. Then my mind
goes back across the years to the
days when the Russian armies
were our Allies against the same
deadly foe, when they fought
with so much valor and con-
stancy and helped to gain a vic
tory, from a share in which, alas,
they were, through no fault OF
ours. utterly cut out.
lived through all this and you
will pardon me If I express my
feelings and the stir Of old
memories.
But now I have to declare the
decision of His Majesty's gov
ernment and I feel sure it is q
decision in which the great do
minions will in due course concur.
We must speak out now, at once,
without days delay. I have to
make the declaration.
None can doubt what our policy
will be. We have but one aim,
anu O1lC SlllslC AlCNoCdpic pun
pose. We are resolved to destroy
Hitler and every vestige of his
Nazi regime; from this nothing
will turn us-nothing. We will
never parley, we will never ne
gotiate 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 his peoples from the
yoke.
Any man or state who fights
against Nazi-ism will have our
aid. Any man or state who
marches with Hitler is our foe.