"VICTORY OR DEATH" AGAINST HITLER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 153, 29 June 1940, Page 10

"VICTORY OR DEATH" AGAINST HITLER.

FIGHTING SPEECH.

Britain Now Has Measure Of Germans. TIDE HAS- TURNED FOR ALLIES. British Official Wireless. (Received 2 p.m.) .-..'" RUGBY, June 28. The words in which Mr. Chamberlain, in an interview with an American journalist—excerpts from which have been telegraphed to London warned Hitler that he was faced with a formidable undertaking if he intended to try to ' conquer Great •Britain, and declared that there was no one anywhere in Great Britain thinking of compromise or peace, found -an echo in a stirring speech delivered at Cheltenham to-night by the Financial Secretary to the War Office, Mr. Richard Law, who is a son of Mr. Bonar Law, a member of Mr. Lloyd George's War Cabinet in the last war, and later Prime Minister. . ■;■ .' '.'.."■ Mr. Law said there could be no question of treating with the enemy. There was no question of a treaty or negotiations. ... There was only victory or extinction. In challenging sentences lie claimed that the tide had turned against Hitler. ■ ....-'. '■:•'. "From' the moment Marshal Petain was deluded into seeking tho humiliating armistico of Compcigne • the tide began to turn," ho ' said. "The tide turned agn'nst.Hitler because from that moment England awakened to the measure. of her danger and her opportunity. .'; When. England is awake, England is invincible. :...... ~ ■ ;. .Victory. Not Automatic. ~.- / --; "No .longer do we conceive of victory ' as: an automatic. or of .time as a complacent ally. -We know that '.time, if.it- is to serve" its, must indeed our servant; ':'"' ' ' ' ' • '!We have taken .the measure at ' last of our adversary," and, having measured him, wo shall destroy him. Wo are lighting- for the idea of England; of courage, kindliness, honour and truth; for the-idea of human- decency.- --' We know that' the idea. will prevail against "all; the perversions of Nazidom.. "Our position may be desperate. .There is comfort in that, for desperate men have nothing to lose ..and -everything ,to gain:. The days, of /safety; first' are finished. .*.,;::•"; ' ■- ' ■.-:■-.- : ';'r "There are no longer any questions of safety. ;' .There is :no safety for investments, for pensions, for homes, for. ourselves. There is -no choice between safety and danger. The choice is between • death and ' life, and. we will choose'life,' however-dangerous, j 'fWe can no longer consider our own or the susceptibilities of other people. ;We are. fighting: our' own - battle, a nd' we are-fighting the : batitlo . of ■ civilised peoples '.- all over the . world. ';'-. For the first time in 100 years we are faced with' threats of invasion. ;■, , •'There is nothing there for dismay. The events of the past few weeks have brought Germany nearer to us, but they : have " brought us nearer to : Germany. Now, *at last,' we. can face the hordes of Hitler as man to man. When we meet the .enemy on these terms there can : only 'be on© result.'.: .'■.'..: ■■'. . Better Man For .Man. ' I "Man to man we are better than' the Germans. That has been proved time and.-time again on - the sea, in the air and now on the' battlefield. Man to man we. will beat him herel And then we will attack him and attack until we : have swept back • for 1 ever the foul tide' that, has submerged Europe. Hitler has never been up against the people'of England before.' ;. There is ' a lesson coming'to him."