The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-27

Australia and New Zealand want
| the entire council to be centered at
Washington, he added, and he hac
asked President Roosevelt for his
views. He had hoped to announce
the Presidents reply but it had not
come.
Churchill spoke in his most blunt
manner and he said at the outse,
that he would demand a vote OF
! confidence from the Commons III
order to leave no room for anybody
to say that he had been afraid tc
do SO.
II must confess" he said, wind
ing up an 84-minute speech, thai
/ feel the weight of the war upoT
me even more than in the tremend-
Gus summer days of 1910.
Asks Encouragement
therefore, I feel entitled to ask
| the House for it's encouragement.
ut is becaues I see the light
cleaning behind the clouds and a
broadening upon our path that ]
make so bold now as to demand a
declaration of confidence as an
additional weapon in the Armory OF
the United Nations"
Churchill said there had been an
enormous jump in British war pro-
duction and American production
had increased even more.
"In 1943 we should be able to
move across the oceans armies two
three or four times as large as the
considerable forces we are able to
handle at sea at the present time,
he said.
Churchill said there had beer
plumbers and shortcomings in the
Far East and that he took the re.
sponsibility. Defying critics who de-
mand reshuffle of his cabinet, he
said he did not intend to throw Al
fred Duff Cooper, cabinet minister
recently recalled from Singapore
"to the wolves" and that he would
not pick scape goats among generals
airmen and soldiers.
Not Appeasing ClamOr
"Why should I be called upon tc
drive away loyal and trusted col
leagues and friends to appease the
clamor of a certain section of the
British and Australian press he de-
manded.
IF we have not got large ant
modern air forces and tanks lr
Malaga and Burma no one is more
accountable than l."
But, he added, it would have beer
ruinous to have scattered the en-
pire's strength wherever in the Fal
East any enemy might have con-
ceivably attacked.
Churchill disclosed for the first
| time that Rudolph Hess, Nazi No.
who flew OF Scotland and landed or
a farm last spring hoped to over
throw his government.
He said that Hess believed that
there was a Churchill clique" and
that if he, with his irresistible NaZ
logic, could weasel his way into the
Clique" he could undermine and
overthrow the government.
Then, he said, Hitler would have
offered a "magnanlmous" peace.
Hess Where He Belongs
where is Hess now?" shouted
member
where he belongs" Churchill
snapped.
Churchill said that Singapore
would be defended to the last inch
and that the imperial forces had
been strengthened last week.
He said that the weeks since Japan
attacked had not been spent IN
apathy or indecision and added:
II must profess profound thank
fitness for what has happened
throughout the whole world in the
last few months"
He predicted that Japan would
not try to invade Australia-"a very
ambitious overseas operation in the
precarious and certainly limited
time before British and American
navies have regained, as they must
regain, ultimate command Of the
Pacific"
Three Day Debate
The prime minister was opening
three day war debate, the most i'm
portant of his prime ministry, be-
fore a crowded House of Commons
which contained many mmebers who
are critical, if not of him, Of many
of his colleagues, and who wanted
assurance on the course the govern
ment is taking to retrieve the allied
position in the Far East and Libya
The Commons was damned, and
many distinguished persons stood In
the galleries, to hear the prime
minister.
Members of the cabinet were
crowded sardine-like on the short
government bench.
"Since my return to this country
have come to the conclusion that
must ask to be sustained by vote
of confidence from the House OF
Commons" Churchill said, at the
outset.
1t was his first report to the par
lament since his return from his
momentoYs visit to Washington
which resulted In the united nations
agreement for an unified Pacific
command.
I'VE have a great deal Of bao
news from the Far East and think