Evening star., 1941-11-10
Text of Churchill Talk
Prime Minister Warns japan,
Pledges No Peace With Hitler
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, Nor. 10.-FOlloTing
is tert of the speech Prime
Minister Churchill deliuered TO-
day at the Mansion House in
! London
Alike in times of peace and war
the annual British festival we have
| observed today the Lord Mayor S
luncheon) has been by long Gus
tom the occasion for speeches at the
Guildhall by the Prime Minister and
the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Your ancient Guildhall lies In
ruins, our foreign affairs have
shrunken and almost the whole of
Europe is PROSTATE under the Nazi
tyranny.
The war which Hitler began by
invading Poland and which now
engulfs the European continent and
has broken into the northeast OF
Africa may well engulf the con-
tinent of Asia-nay. it may soon
spread to the remaining fourth OF
the globe
Nevertheless. in the same spirit in
which you tthe Lord Ma orr have
celebrated your assumption of office
with the me-honored pageant OF
the Lord Mayors day. so l. as your
guest. will endeavor to play. though
very briehy-for wartime SCeeches
should be short-the traditional
part assigned to those who hold my
office.
Thousands Being Butchered.
The condition of Europe is ter
! rible in the last degree. In dozen
countries NorWe2ians. Belgians,
F'renchmen. Dutch, Poles. CZechs.
/ Serbs. Croats. Slovenes. Greeks and
above all in scale Russians are being
/ butchered by thousands and tens of
! thousands after they have surren-
derer, while mass executions in all
countries have become part OF the
regular German routine.
The world has been intensely
stirred by the massacre of French
hostages. The whole of France.
with the exception of that small
clique whose public careers depend
upon a German victory, has been
united in horror and indignation
against this slaughter of perfectly
innocent people.
The French people have not been
impressed by Admiral Darlan's
| tribute to German generosity and
his call for loving collaboration with
cOnQuerOrS and murdererS.
Even the arch criminal himself
the Nazi ogre Hitler, has been
frightened by the volume of world
indignation which his spectacular
atrocities have excited.
Died for Their Country.
1t is not that the French people
have been intimidated. Hitler has
not dared to 60 further with his
program Of killing. This is not due
to mercy, compassion or compunc-
tion, but to fear and a continuing
uneasiness of personal insecurity
rising in a wicked heart.
I would say generally that we
must regard all these victims of
Nazi executioners in so many lands
who are labeled Communists and
Jews as if they were brave soldiers
who died for their country on the
field of battle.
In a way their sacrifice may be
more fruitful than that of soldier
who falls with arms in his hand.
A river of blood has flowed and Is
flowing between the German race
and the peoples of all Europe. 1t is
not the hot blood of battle, where
good blows are given and returned.
1t is the cold blood of the execution
yard and scaffold, which leaves a
stain indelible for generations and
for centuries.
House Warming of HerrenvOlk."
Here, then, are foundations upon
which the new order of Europe is to
be inaugurated. Here, then, is the
house warming festival of the Her.
renvolk. Here, then, is the system
of terrorism by which the NaZi
criminals and their Quisling accom-
plices seek to rule dozen ancient
states of Europe and, if poSoSible, all
the free nations of the world.
In no more effective manner
could they have frustrated the ac-
complishment Of their own designs
The future and its history are in
scrutable. One thing is plain-never
to these bloodStained and accurSed