The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-08


like that of prisoners after World
War I and after the battle Of Jena,
which ended German resistance to
Napoleon for several years.
10-The greatest battles" appear
to be impending on the Russian
front, where the Germans have
massed 100 Naz and 20 Satellite
divisions.
Tie House was so crowded for
Churchill's address that many mem
bers we're forced to stand outside
the railing. The galleries were
packed with prominent persons, in
GLIDING Mrs. Churchill, U. s. AM
bassador John G. Winant, Soviet
Ambassador Ivan Maisky and most
other members Of the diplomatic
corps Many Peers were in the
Peers gallery.
Churchill was accorded an ovation
as he entered the House for the first
time since he returned from his mo-
mentous war conferences in Wash
angton and North Africa.
Churchill began speaking at
1905 p. m. DIST (6:05 a. m. EWT0
He FINISHED at 1912 p. m. DIST
(6:42 a. m. EWT.
GAS the Allied war effort passes
into the offensive phase and its
scale and pace grow continually
more frequent consultations be-
tween STATS and those concerned
with high control become neces-
Bary," Churchill said.
cat Washington, the entire ex-
panse of the Worldly War on which
the mellow light of victory now be-
gins to play was laid open to British
and American leaders.
Unity Proven
'TWe've shown we can work to-
gether. We've shown we can race
disaster. We have still to show that
we can keep ourselves at the height
and level of successful events and
be worthy Of good fortune.
Compete agreement about the
forward steps have been reached
between the two governments. I
shall make no predictions as to
what will happen in the future and
still less, in the near future"
Churchill said that he, President
Roosevelt and their top advisers had
approved plans at Casablanca last
January which still have not yet
been accomplished.
"All I can say is that the Anglo
American policy Of strategy and
economy were brought into full
focus and function in those Is days
Of talks in Washington Qast
month";, he said.
The plans drafted in North
Africa, he said, can best be de-
Hcribed as directed to the applica-
ton upon the enemy of force in
Its most intense and violent form"
ut would not be for me TO at
tempt to give even in outline an &C
count of the decisions which were
reached" he said. THE commanders
are men in the full tide of success
full experiment. They are proud of
the troops they lead and are resolute
on the plans they have made"
Churchill said that it was evident
that "phibious operations of pecu-
liar completely and hazard on a
large scale are approaching
II can give no guarantee any more
than have in the past as to what
will happen" he said.
1T have good hopes that neither
the parliament nor the United
States Congress will find themselves
observed by their forces, whether
IN the British Isles or an African
shores"
Wherever he travelled among the
Allied armies, Churchill said he
gained the impression that they are
most anxious to engage the enemy
"again at the earliest moment"
Churchill declared he preferred
not to use the phrase brilliant pros
poets" to describe Allied hopes at
this stage.
II would prefer to substitute the
words, bright and solid prospects
lie before US" he said. 81 think that
would be more appropriate and be-
coming in such anxious days"
Churchill placed enemy losses in
Tunisia at nearly 300, 900, more than
half of them Germans. The total
included 248 900 prisoners and $4,000
killed, he said
OF $1,000 prisoners taken by the
Second U. S. Corps, he said, 80, 00C
were German.
The British Eighth Army suffered
1850 casualties from the time ii
crossed the Libyan frontier into
Tunisia until the final conquest he
said, while the First Army suffered
23,50O casualties.
The milled, wounded and missing
Of both armies during the Tunisian
campaign totalled about $1,000 men
he said.
Only 638 persons escaped of the
TtInis, he revealed.
Hitler's Hopes Dashed
"Stalingrad and Tunisia were the
greatest military disasters that ever
befell Germany" he said. There is
no doubt from the statements of the
captured generals that Hitler ex-
pected the Tunisian army would
hold out, at least until August
The suddenness of the German
collapse in Tunisia must be re-
garded as significant and in a
sense, characteristic of German
psychology after Jena and after the
last war, Dut no UNIQUE expectation
should be placed thereon.
I'VE are prepared to win this
war by hard fighting and if neces-
sary, by hard fighting alone"
Churchill said the British and
American armies, as well as the
French army, now have become "a
most powerful and finely tempered
weapon"
They have full confidence In
themselves, in the high command
and in the general war direction,
he said.
Operations now impending" in
the European theater, Churchill said
shave been fitted into their proper
place in the general war;
TT Is necessary for me to make
plain" he said, "that so far as the
Rrifiet 0ovarnu1ant and dominion