The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-08
CHURCHILL TELLS
 COMMONS OF NEWS
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Malta through Q ferocious Axis at tack had ensured the life and re- slstance of that Mediterranean fcrt- ress for 6 good many months.
 That Britain and America had made Stalin confident of their re- solve to 90 to Russia's aid "as quick \ ly as possible without regard to losses or sacrifices 80 long as the contribution was toward victory"
 That since the last meeting of the commons, and the complete United States British agreement on the war reached ct the end of July, as announced at Washington and by Churchill today, "the tendencies of the war have continued to move in our favor"
 New Possibilities
 That the United States army fy- ing Actresses operating from Bri- tain had opened new possibilities of warfare.
 That United Nations ship produc- tion had definitely passed the sink ing ratio and that:
 "Our warfare on enemy submar- ines is more successful than ct any former period of the war"
 He said that the sea war was the foundation of all United Nations ef- forts.
 'There is no reason to believe we have not the means of victory in our hands in the sea battle If the ut- most In human power is done here and in the United States" he said.
 Announcing that Britain and the United States had reached complete agreement in the whole field of the war in every part of the world by the end of July, Churchill broke the news to commons that President Roosevelt had sent Gen. George o. Marshall, United States Army chief of staff; Adm. Ernest J. King, com mander in chief of the United States fleet, and the Presidents spe- cial envoy Harry L. Hopkins to Britain in July, while the agree ment was being negotiated.
 Decisions were taken affecting the future conduct of our operations not (not) only in Europe but throughout the world," he said.
 Churchill entetred a damned house, exjecting him to make one of the big speeches of the war, dur ing the question hour on the first day after the summer recess Of parliament.
 Greeted With Cheers
 A burst of cheers greeted him.
 Churchill had last addressed the commons July 2 at a period which looked gloomy If not nearly dis- astrous in the middle east. The Eighth Army had been thrown back from Libya into mid Egypt with a loss of 50,000 men and hundreds of tanks. Nevertheless he had won a confidence vote of 475 to %.
 He had faced this situation after his return from the United States in June, where he and President Roosevelt had agreed that the AL lied objective was "the earliest maximum concentration of Allied war power on the enemy"
 Then Churchill had made his dra- matic secret visit to Russia to visit Premier Josef Stalin.
 On his way to Moscow and on his way back he had studied the middle eastern situation on the spot.
 He had announced after his re- turn a complete change in the Egyptian command which had put Gen. Harold R. l.. c. Alexander in command in the middle east and Lieut.. Gen Bernard L. Montgomery in command of the Eighth Army. Montgomery had beaten back Ger man Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in the first phase of the fall cam paign.
 Thus Churchill's position today was held in political quarters to be as strong as at almost any time since he became prime minister.
 Churchill Background
 President RooSevelt's speech last night, announcing that certain vital military decisions have been made" and that "all these decisions are directed toward taking the of- fensive," provided the background for Churchiil's full dress speech to- day.
 At the start Churchill paid tribute to the Duke of Kent, King Georges brother, killed in Rroyal Air Force bombing plane crash in Scotland on an action flight.
 Then he made the announcement, the first of its emphasis. that the Allied convoy which had reached Malta, and which the Axis said was wiped out. had saved Britain's great stronghold of Malta at the entrance to the Sicily Strait.
 He admitted, as had the admir- alty, that there had been severe losses both to the convoy and to its escort.
 Churchill said that the Dieppe raid was "a hard and savage clash, such as are likely to be increasingly numerous"
 The Allies, he said, had to get in- formation before launching opera tions lon a much larger scale"
 T regard the Dieppe assault as an indispensable preliminary to full scale operations" he said. ''Thus by the end of July com plete agreement on war policy and war plans was reached between Bri- tain and the United States, Churchill continued)
 Armed with this agreement be- tween Britain and the United States, and invigorated with the good will of the house, I took ad- vantage of the parliamentary re- cess to visit the armies in the mld- de east and to visit Premier Stalir in Moscow"
 Regarding the Russian front. he commented:
 T will only at the moment say it is the eight of September"
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