Evening star., 1944-02-23
Churchill Cautious
AGAINST Resentment
OF u. 5. Criticism
BY the Associatec Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 23.-Prime Min
lister Churchill urged his country
men yesterday not to be "unduly
concerned" by what may be said
about Britain during this election
year in the United States and called
for Allied unity "in these times OF
immense exertion and grievous
sacrifice"
Election year in America, he said
in his war review in Commons, sis
a. time when naturally lot of rough
things have to be said about Great
Britain and when popularity is to
be gained in that vast community
in demonstrating Americanism in
its highest FORMS"
"We are, ourselves, we'll accus-
toned to the process of elections
and I think we should not allow
ourselves to be unduly concerned
by anything that may be said or
written there in the course of the
great constitutional process which
is taking place." he added, con-
tinuing:
1--WE are at the advent of. the
greatest joint operation between two
Allies that has ever been planned
in history.
Pleads for Retention of Unity.
There is a desire in this country
In many quarters to raise old con-
troversies between different parties
There is also mood in the Anglo
American alliance to awaken slum-
bering prejudices and let them have
their run.
"Yet liberals, labor men and tories
are at this moment fighting and dy-
ing at the front and working in a
thousand different ways at home,
and Britons and Americans are
linked together in the noblest COM
radeship of war under the fire and
fail of the enemy.
MY hope is that the generous in
stincts of unity will not depart from
us in these times of immense ex-
ertion and grievous sacrifice and
that we shall not fall apart abroad
or at home and so become the prey
of the little folk who exist in every
country and flock alongside the jug
gernaut of war to see what fun or
notoriety they can extract from the
proceedings"
In his review Mr.. Churchill gave
clue to one of the wars most in
triguing mysteries-the unspecifled
military objectives in Northern
France" which the Allies have in
tensively bombed for months.
Increasing Retaliatory Raids Seen.
Asserting that German retaliatory
air raids could be expected to in
crease, he stated that also there is
no doubt that the Germans are pre-
pairing on the French shore new
means of attack on this country,
either by pilotless aircraft or pos
sibly rockets, or both, on consid-
cradle scale"
The term "pilotless aircraft" was
presumed to refer to glider bombs,
probably radio-controlled, like those
the Prime Minister previously dis
closed the Germans had used to
attack Allied ships.
1t has been generally thought that
the installations in France involve
concrete emplacements above or be-
low ground, or both. Rocket shells
presumably would be projected from
giant elaboration of the kind of
chutes used for Fourth of July
rockets. Glider bombs might be
projected from similar emplace-
ments, although to date they have
been released only from airplanes.
1t would be possible for a plane,
high over Northern France, to re-
lease radio-controlled bomb which
would land in England, but for long
distance bombing this would be
little better than projection from
chutes. Radio control is believed
effective only as far as the man in
the controlling plane can see.