Evening star., 1942-05-11

1t fell to me to express the senti-
ments and resolves of the British
Nation in that supreme crisis OF its
life. That was an honor far beyond
any dreams or ambitions I had
nursed, and one that cannot be
taken away.
For a whole year after the fall Of
France we stood alone, keeping the
flag of freedom flying and the hopes
of the world alive.
We conquered the Italian empire.
We destroyed or captured almost all
of Mussolini's African army. We
liberated Abyssinia. We have so
far successfully protected Palestine
Syria, Persia and Irau from German
designs. We suffered grievous re-
verses in going to the aid OF the
heroic Greeks. We bore unfiinch-
ingly many heavy blows abroad, and
still more in our cities at home.
Cheered by Roosevelt
And United States.
And all this time, cheered and
helped by President Roosevelt and
the United States, we stood alone,
neither faltering nor tagging.
Where are we now?
Can any one doubt If We, worthy
of it as we shall be, will have our
future in our hands?
AS in the last war, we are moving
through many reverses and defeats
to complete and final victory.
We have only to endure and per-
severe to conquer.
Now we are no longer unarmed.
We are well armed.
Now we are not alone. We have
mighty allies. There can only
be one end. When 1t will come, or
how it will come, cannot tell.
AS has happened before in our
islands history, by remaining stead
fast and unyielding-stubborn If you
will against a continental tryant,
we reached a moment when the
tyrant made fatal blunder.
Even Hitler Sometimes
Makes Mistakes.
Even Hitler makes mistakes some
times. In June last, without the
slightest provocation and in breach
of pact of non-aggression, he in
vaded the lands of the Russian
people.
At the time he had the strongest
army in the world, trained in war,
| flushed with incredible, unbroken
success and equipped with linitless
munitions and the most modern
weapons. He also had secured to
himself the advantages of surprise
and treachery. -
The Russians under their warrior
| chief Stain sustained losses which
no other country or government ever
has borne in so short a time and
lived. But they, like us, were re-
solved never to give in. They poured
out their blood upon their native
soil. They kept their faces to the
foe
Made Solemn Compact
To Destroy Nazidom.
FEom the very first day when they
were attacked, when no one could
tell how things would go, we made
a brotherhood with them and a
solemn compact to destroy Nazidom
and all its works.
Then Hitler made his second
grand blunder. He forgot about
the winter. There is a winter. you
know, in Russia.
For a good many months the
temperature is apt to fall very low
There is snow and all that. Hitler
! forgot about this Russian winter.
He must have been very loosely edu-
Gated. We all heard about 1t at
school, but he forgot it.
never made such a bad mis-
take as that. So the winter came
and fell upon his ill-clad armies
and with the winter came the val
liant Russian counterattacks.
More Germans Killed
Than in Last War.
No one can say with certainty
how many millions Of Germans al
ready have perished in Russia and
its snovs-certainly more than were
killed in the whole four and a
quarter years of the last war.
So besotted is this man in his
lust for blood and conquest, so
blasting is the power he wields
over the lives of Germans, that he
even blurted out the other day
that his armies would be better
clothed and his locomotives better
prepared for their second winter
in Russia than they were for the
first.
There was an admission about
the length Of the war that struck
chill into German hearts as cold
as the icy winds of Russia.
Certain it Is that the Russian
armies are stronger than they were
last year, that they have learned
by hard experience to fight the
Germans in the field, that they are
we'll equipped and their constancy
and courage unquenched.
Leaves Behind . Europe
Starving and in Chains.
| That is what Is in front of Hit
/ 1er
He leaves behind him a Europe
starving and in chains, a Europe
in which his execution squads are
busy in dozen countries every
| day, a Europe which has learned
to hate the Nazi name as no name
ever has been hated In the his
tory of mankind, a Europe ripe
for revolt whenever opportunity
comes.
But this is not all he left be-
hind. We are on his tracks, and
so is the United States. Already
the Royal Air Force has set about
him. A British and presently an
American bombing offensive against
| Germany will be one Of the princi-