The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-16
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ally of the United States and the
other nations in that conflict, but
also to regain ah we are regaining,
territories which the Japanese
wrested from us. We will have to
repay the injuries they inflicted
and the Internal cruelties they per-
petrated upon His Majesty's sub
jects-British, Australians, Indian,
Burmese and Malayan alike.
THAT will require intense effort
and no mood of war WEAKNESS
must prevent us from doing our
duty to the last inch and to the last
minute
Churchill, who when he became
Prime Minister five and a half
years ago promised the British
nothing but blood, sweat, and
tears, painted no rosy picture of
the postwar years.
There may be less blood and
fewer tears,'' he said, "but men
tai toll and physical sweat and
the conscious united resolve of ev-
cry man and woman to give all
that is in them will be required
from us after the last bomb or
cannon has ceased to thunder. Let
there be no mistake about it. It
is no easy cheapjack Utopia of airy
phrases that lies before us. new
er was there a time when so much
was planned and projected and so
much remains to be turned from
paper to action.
eve have to get our dear couYl-
try on the move again and into
its full swing of natural health and
life. we do not wish to live
on the charity or generosity of
any nation.
1--WE have given our all in the
common cause and may claim as
sistance to recover our normal
economy from those we have help
ed to victory, but we must never
agree to found our economic life
on the indulgence or favor even
of allies we most dearly cherish. !"
After reviewing Britain's part in
the war, he said:
Certainly with this unparallel-
ed record we have no need to seek
the advice even of our most hon.
ored allies as to how we should
conduct ourselves with regard to
our own affairs. without free
dom there is no foundation for our
empire. Without the empire there
is no safegua,~: for our freedom.
We mean freedom for all states
and nations within the circle of
the Crown. By this we also mean
freedom for individuals within the
broad and ever advancing concep-
tons of the British constitution and
the British way of life.'
Churchill promised Britons a
large release from the necessary
bonds and controls which war con-
ditions imposed upon us" as soon
as possible after hostilities cease.
"No retrictions upon well es-
tablished liberties that is not prov
ed indispensable to the prosecution
of the war and the transition from
war to peace can be tolerated
he said. Control for controls sake
is senseless. Controls under the
pretext of the war or its after
math which are in fact designed
to favor the accomplishment of to-
talitarian systems. should be
merci1essly exposed to the British
public
He indicated Britain's m al n
home front problems will be the
rebuilding of the hundreds of thou
sands of homes and business
structures destroyed by German
bombs, the reesta blishment Of for
eign trade and continued empha-
sis on the long-neglected but war
expanded agricultural industry.
1.-THE war taught us that we
have the long neglected treasure
house of the British soil,' he said.
'Twice i'll a generation we called
upon the farming community, in
spite of that neglect, to keep the
wolf from our doors. They have