HIGH RESOLVE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 141, 17 June 1941, Page 7

HIGH RESOLVE

BRITAIN AND U.S.A.

Mr. Churchill Speaks to People Of America

Hritish Official Wireless.

Hoc. 12.30 p.nu RUGBY, June 36

( hmchill Mr - Winston .muc.nui, bioadcasting to the Unitpri on tße occasion of (leeii-o n n"; c thc honorary i. , ot D °ctor of Civil Law at fact tha 7 Ro n h Ve t" Sity ' recall ed the jact mat Rochester was the homo town of his mother, who was Cn

"What touched me most in this ei , llony ' , lle " is that sense of Mnslnp and unity which I feel exists between us this afternoon."

Strong tides of emotion, said Mr. (. nurchill, and fierce surges of passion swept the broad expanses of the Union m this year of fate. In this prodigious travail there were many elemental forces, there was much heart searching and selfquestioning, there were some pangs some sorrow and some conflict of voices, but no fear.

1 he world is witnessing the birth throes of a sublime resolve," he continued. "I shall presume to confess to you that I have no doubts what that resolve will be. A wickedness, enormous, panoplied, embattled and seemingly triumphant, casts its shadow over Europe and Asia. Laws customs and traditions are broken up. Justice is cast from her scat. I he rights of the weak are trampled down. The grand freedoms of which the President of the United States has spoken so movingly arc spurned and chained. The whole structure ol man, his genius, his initiative and his nobility, is ground down under systems ot mechanical barbarism and of organised and scheduled terror. For more than a year we British have stood alone, uplifted by your sympathy and respect and sustained by our own unconquerable will power and by the increasing growth and hopes of your massive aid. "Old liion and Cubs" "In these British islands that look so small upon the map we stand, faithful guardians of the rights and dearest hopes of a dozen States and nations now gripped and tormented in base and cruel servitude. Whatever happens we shall endure to the i end. But what is the explanation of the enslavement of Europe by the German Nazi regime? How did they do it? It is but a few years since one united gesture by the peoples, great and small, who are now broken in dust would have warded off from mankind the fearful ordeal it has had to undergo.

"But there was no unity, there was no vision. Nations were pulled down one by one while others gaped and chattered. One by one, each in his turn, they let thfflnselves be caught. One after another they were felled by brutal violence or poisoned from within by subtle intrigue. And now the old lion with the lion cubs at his side, stancs alone against the hunters, wtio are armed with deadly weapons and impelled by a desperate and destructive rage. Every month that passes adds to the length and perils of the journey that will have to be made. United we stand, divided we fall. Divided, the dark age returns; united, we can save and guide the world."