Evening star., 1942-11-10
By the Associated Press.


OF Prime Minister ChurchilFs
speech in London today tollo,Ds:
I notice, my Lord Mayor, by your
speech you had reached the con-
clusion that news from the various
fronts has been somewhat better
lately.
In our wars, episodes are largely
adverse but the final result has
hitherto been satisfactory. Eddies
swirl around us but the tide bears
us forward on its broad, resistless
food.
In the last war we were uphill
almost to the end. We met with
continual disappointments and with
disasters far more bloody than any,
thing we have experienced SO far
in this. -.. .-
But in the end all oppositions fell
together and all our foes submitted
themselves to our. will.
We have not so far in this war
taken as many German prisoners
as they have taken British but these
German prisoners will, no doubt,
come in in droves at the end just
as they did last time.
I have never promised anything
but blood, tears, toll and sweat.
Now, however, we have a new ex-
perience.
We have victory-a remarkable
and definite victory. The bright
gleam has caught the helmets of
our soldiers and warmed and
cheered all our hearts.
Glorious, Decisive Victory.
The late M. Venezilos observed
that in all her wars England-he
should have said Britain, of course
always won one battle, the last. 1t
would seem to have begun rather
earlier this time.
Gen. Alexander, with his brilliant
comrade and lieutenant, Gen. Mont
gomery, has made a glorious and
decisive victory in what I think
should be called the battle of Egypt
Rommeps army has been defeated.
1t has been routed. 1t has been
very largely destroyed as 4 fighting
force.
This battle was not fought for the
sake of gaining positions or so many
square miles of desert territory.
Gen. Alexander and Gen. Mont
gomery fought it with one single
ldea-to destroy the armed forces
of the enemy and to destroy them
at a place where the disaster would
be most punishable and irrecov-
erable.
All the various elements in our
lines of battle played their part,
Indian troops, Fighting French,
Greeks, representatives of Czecho-
slovakia and others. Americans
rendered powerful and invaluable
service in the air.
But as it happened, as the course
of battle turned it has been fought
throughout almost entirely by men
of British blood and from the do
minions on the one side and by
Germans on the other.
The Italians were left to perish
in the waterless desert. But the
fighting between the British and
Germans was intense and fierce in
the extreme.
1t was deadly battle. The Ger
mans have been damaged and out
fought with every kind of weapon
with which they had beaten down
SO many small peoples and, also,
larger, unprepared peoples.
Beaten by Own Technique.
They have been beaten by many
of the technical apparatus on which
they counted to gain domination of
the world. Especially is this true
in the air. as of tanks and of ar
tillery. which has come altogether
into its own.
The Germans have received that
measure of fire and steel which they
have so often meted out to others.
Now, this is not the end. 1t is
not even the beginning to the end
But it is, perhaps, the end OF the
beginning
Hitler's NaZis will be equally we'll
armed, and perhaps, better armed.
But henceforward they will have to
face in many theaters that superb
ority in the air which they have so
often used without mercy against
others and of which they boasted all
/. around the world that they were to
be master and which they intended
to use as an instrument for con-
vincing all other peoples that all
resistance to them was hopeless.
When I read OF the coastal road
crammed with fleeing German We
hicles under the blast of tanks and
| of the RAF, could not but remem-
ber those roads of France and Flan-
ders crowded not with fighting men
but with helpless refugees. women
and children, fleeing with their pit
iful barrows and household goods
, upon whom such merciless havoc
was Wreaked. I have, trust, a
humane disposition, but I must say
I could not help feeling that what
ever was happening, however griev-
Gus, was only justice grimly repaid
1t will be my duty in the near fu-
ture to give a particular and full
account of these operations.
All I say about them at present is
that the victory which has already
been gained gives good prospects OF
becoming decisive and final so fal
as the defense of Egypt is concerned
Gives Roosevelt Credit.
But this battle of Egypt, in itself
so important, was designed anc
timed as prelude and a counter.
| part of the momentous enterprise
undertaken by the United States al
the western end of the Mediterran.
can. an enterprise under United
States command and in which oul
army, air force and, above ALL oul
navy are bearing an honorable ant
important share.
A very full account has been pub.