The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-16

hours of their history. has as
sured them that the United Ma
tons will be found fully rapa-
BILE of squaring all accounts"
and the question before Britain
today is how strong remains
her faith in his leadership.
Although he bore q message of
disaster. the Prime Minister de-
clared that ultimately the over
whelming fact of the war would
be that "the power of the United
States and its vast resources
are in it with U.S."
It fell to the Prime Minister
yesterday to broadcast to the
Empire the most dismal news
for its people since Dunkerque:
SINGAPORE FALLS
Singapore has fallen. All the
Malay Peninsula has been over
run"
That bare statement was all
that Britain was told of the loss
of her great fortress and the fate
Of its valiant defenders except
for Japan's announcement that
Singapore had surrendered un-
conditionally.
But Churchill frankly &C
knowledged 1t to be q heavy
and far-reaching defeat" and,
though he was pleading for con-
fidence, he told Britain in UNI
vanished words:
"Other dangers gather about
US out there and none Of tho
dangers which we have hitherto
faced successfully ut home and
in the East are in any way d.
minished."
DISMAYNG NEWS
Loss Of the island citadel,
guardian Of the gateway to the
Indian Ocean and q rampant for
the defense Of the Dutch East
Indies and Australia, came after
q week Of dismayins news for
Britain, news which had Tossed
q cry of doubt in the Empires
leadership.
The Prime Minister did not
mention the feat of q German
naval squadron in slipping home
through the English Channel In
defiance Of Britain's home de-
tenders; he did not mention ia
pans growing threat to Burma:
he touched but briefly on IL
dark picture in Libya.
Some Britons regarded the
governments silence on details
Of Singapore's downfall q .
wise security measure for the
present. Expecting Churchill to
give Parliament . fuller account,
possibly later In the week, they
reserved judgment.
HINT AT MISGIvNGS
With the exception Of Lord
Beaverbrook's Daily Express,
however, al London newspapers
which took . stand expressed
misgivings and limited at . rising
clamor for chance which may
reach a far % Downing Street.
1--WE must endure anything,
certainly" said the Daily Mail,
"but to 90 on offering u tears,
sweat and blood In monotonous
gloom Of stoical resignation h
now to confess. That something
Is seriously wrong with the con-
duct of the war % . whole"
The Daily Mail warned the
Prime Minister that IL he does
not make radical changes In the
general direction Of our war a.
fort now, the day may come soon
when these changes will be fore
ed by the impact Of further dis
asters."
Only the Express came to his
support with the exhortatiou
that I'VE must stand together
under the great leader this land
has produced for it, trial."
MUST PRESERvE UNITY
Essentially, this was the Prime
Minister'S message: Formidable
as are the factors against Bril-
tain, they are outweighed by
those In her favor. Therefore,
the nation must preserve it,
unity and it, confidence In It.
self.
He asked Britain to put "the
good and the bad side by side
and let Us try to see exactly
where we are"
The first and greatest Of
events" he began ''is that the
United States IL now unitedly
and intellectually In the war
with US. -.
II cannot believe there II any
other fact in the whole world
which can compare with that.
COMES TO PASS
THAT Is what I have dreamed
OF. aimed at and worked for. and
now it has come to pass"
Churchill also cited the might
Of Soviet Russia, whose example
Of unity amid adversity he laid
before the British.
THE Russian armies have not
been defeated" he said, Sthay
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