Evening star., 1942-05-11
Text of Churchill Speech
British Prime Minister Optimistic
In Report on Progress of War

pal features in this years World
War.
Now is the time to use our in
creasingly superior air strength to
strike hard and continually at the
home front in the Germany from
which so much evil has leaped out
upon the world and which is the
foundation of the whole enormous
German invasion of Russia.
Now, while the German armies
will be bleeding and burning up
their strength against the 1000
mile Russian line and when news
of casualties by the hundreds of
thousands Is streaming back to the
German Reich. Now is the time
to bring home to the German people
the wickedneSS of they rulers by
destroying under their very eyes
the factories and seaports on which
their war effort depends.
Mingles Terrible Threats
With His Winnings.
German propaganda has been
appealing to British public opinion
to put stop to these severe forms
of warfare. -
Herr Hitler himself has not taken
at all kindly to this treatment and
he has been good enough to mingle
terrible threats with his whin-
ingS. sss
Herr Hitler has even called into
question the humanity of these
grim developments of war. What a
pity this conversion did not take
place before he bombed Warsaw or
massacred 10000 Dutch folk in de-
fenSeless Rotterdam or wreaked
his cruel vengeance upon the open
city Of Belgrade.
In those days he used to boast
that for every ton of bombs we
dropped on Germany. he would
drop 10 times or even 100 times
as many on Britain.
But now it is the other way
around. We are in position to carry
into Germany many times the ton
mage of high explosives which he
can send here.
British Bombing Accuracy
Improves With Practice.
The accuracy of our bombing has
nearly doubled, and with continued
practice I expect it will improve
still more.
Moreover, at the same time our
method of dealing with his raiders
over here have more than repaid
the immense care and science be-
slowed upon them and the very
large scale upon which they are
applied.
During April we destroyed about
one-tenth of all raiding aircraft
which aSSailed our island whereas.
acting on a scale several times as
big, the losses we have suffered have
been proportionately far smaller
80 you will remember how German
propaganda films, thinking to ter
rorize neutral countries and glory
ing in their devastating violence,
were wont to show rows of great
German bombers being loaded up
with bombs, then casting showers of
bombs down upon defenseless towns
and villages, choking them in smoke
and flame.
All this was represented to neutral
countries as the German way of
making war All this was intended
to make the world believe resist
ance to German will was impossible
and subjugation and slavery was the
safest and easiest road.
Those days are gone we
have a long list of German cities
in which vital industries of the Ger
man war machine are established
All these it will be our stern duty
to deal with as we have already
dealt with Lubbock, with Rostock,
and half dozen important places.
German Population
Has Way Of Escape
The civil population of Germany
have, however, an easy way of
escape from these seventies. All
they have to do is to leave cities
where munition work is being car
ried on. Abandon their work and
60 out into the fields and watch
the home fires burning from a dis
tance.
In this way they may find time
for meditation and repentance
There they may remember the mil
lions of Russian women and chill
dren they have driven out to perish
in SHOWS and mass executions of
peasantry and prisoners of war
which in varying scales they are
inf1icting upon so many of the
ancient and famous peoples of Eu-
rope.
There they may remember that
it is the villainous Hitlerite regime
which is responsible for dragging
Germany through misery and
slaughter to ultimate ruin. And the
tyrant's overthrow is the first step
to world liberation.
We now wait in what is a stormy
lull, but still q lull before the hurri-
cane bursts again in it's fullest fury
on the Russian front. We cannot
tell when it will begin.
We have not so far seen any evi-
dence OF those great concentrations
OF German masses which usually
precede their large-scale offensive
They may have been successfully
concealed or may not yet have been
launched eastward, but it is now
May 10 and days are passing. We
send our SalutationS to the Rus
sian armies and we hope that the
thousands of tanks and airplanes
which have been carried to their
aid from Britain and America will
be a useful contribution to their
own magnificently developed NUM-
tions resources.
Threatens to Retaliate
For Use of Gas.
There, however, is one serious
matter which I must mention to
you. The Soviet government have
expressed to us the view that the
Germans in the desperation Of their
assault NAV make Use Of poisop