Detroit evening times., 1945-08-07

recent radio broadcast By Rupert
critical time, Churchill denounced them with
fury; and he has never been any more pop
ular with the Soviets than they with him.
He and Stain have been a pair of very
wary allies. They never forgot that very
wise saying of Stains, which we also should
never forget. For Stain said:
"A healthy suspicion Is the best basis for
collaboration
A FTER World War I, Churchill was OUT
"A OF FAVOR WITH EVERYBODY. He
even lost when he ran for reelection. He
became an author again and also took up
painting and one of his pet hobbies, brick
laying.
In 1912, he ran again for a seat in Paria-
ment, and was again defeated, but narrowly.
He tried again the following year and re-
entered Parliament, receiving his fathers old
post of chancellor of the exchequer
He did great work in SECURING PEN
SIONS FOR WIDOWS, IN THE REDUCTION
OF TAXES FOR THE POOR, AND IN THE
SETTLEMENT OF WAR DEBTS.
BOUT 1885, he began to cry out warnings
"A against Hitler. He produced figures on
figures showing the swift rearmament of the
Nazis and exposing the appalling weakness
of the British. He was laughed at officially,
flatly eontradieted and ignominiously ignored.
Then came Munich and Chamberlain's
triumphant return with permanent peace in
our time" guaranteed by that noble lover of
peace, Hitler BY the way whatever became
of him?
Suddenly poor Chamberlain's glory blew
up in his hand and war caught him unready,
and verified Churchils predictions.
Churchills treatment of him was magnan-
imous at time when hardly anybody else had
good word to say of the unfortunate man
who had guessed wrong.
Chamberlains almost fatal folly threw
upon Churchills shoulders the =wreekage= of
hope and the problem of saving England and
the empire
\ T DUNKERQUE, the gish suffered an
"A other Gallipoli; but British courage made
glory of the disaster; and Churchill won
eternal fame by his unconquerable refusal TO
quail before German might, BACKED UP AS
IT WAS BY THE RUSSIAN ALLEGIANCE.
The world will hardly forget Churchills
magnificent words when he seemed to stand
on the white cliffs of England like another
King Lear, defying the storm
He promised his people blood and sweat
and tears" and promised Hitler that the Brit
lsh would fight him on the beaches in the
streets, in the hills. They would NEVER
SURRENDER.
THE Socialists and Laborites naturally re-
Joice in their overwhelming victory, and
they have right to their glory. But they
also have won the RESPONSIBILITY FOR
CARRY NC OUT THEIR GOLDEN
PROMISES FROM NOW ON.
That will not be easy in the chaos that
must follow the war. The new government
promises the people social paradise What
the people will get is anybody's guess
To the victors belong the spoils. and the
voters who hoisted Attlee into power with the
rush and whoop of giant geyser are just
spelling for the spoils
\ LII that Attlee has to do now is to solve
"A the postwar problems and satisfy the
demands of peoples maddened by long and ex-
hausting privations in badly battered and
shattered island.
All that Attlee has to do is to perform a
MIRACLE A DAY. Heaven grant that he
may have success-at least in partial degree.
Nobody ever succeeded everywhere.
Churchill stood before the world alone
alone there in the tempest-and pledged his
countrymen to die fighting. No figure in all
history is more sublime as hero, no one more
dazzling as an intellect, welding the count
less weapons OF worldwide empire.
We Americans can take pride in the fact
that Churchill sprang from the womb of an
American mother. WE CAN REJOICE THAT
WE DID NOT DELAY TOO LONG IN CON-
ING TO HIS RESCUE-AND OUR OWN.
We need not begrudge his enemies their
victory but, before they crow too loud let
them make sure that when they reach the
end of their success, they can point to an
equal submty of achieyement.