MORE SACRIFICES BY BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24566, 15 May 1945, Page 5

MORE SACRIFICES BY BRITAIN

War On Japan; Settlement In Europe

CHURCHILL’S WARNING IN BROADCAST

(8.0. W.) RUGBY, May 18. A warning that the nation must be prepared for further sacrifices, to make sure that the purposes for which the war was fought were realised in Europe, and to help the United States to* defeat Japan, was given by Mr Churchill in a broadcast this evening. “I wish I could tell you to-night that all our toils and troubles were over,” said Mr Churchill in his broadcast to the nation. “Then indeed I could end my reign and cease fire happily, and if you thought you had had enough of me, and that I ought to be put out to grass, I assure you I would take it with the best grace.

“But, on the contrary, I must warn you as I did when I began this five years’ task—and no one knew that it would last so long—that there is still a lot to do and that you must be prepared for further sacrifices to great causes if you are not to fall back into the rut of inertia, confusion of aim, and craven fear of being great

"On the Continent of Europe we have yet to make sure that the simple honourable purposes for which we entered the war are not brushed aside or overlooked in the months following our success, and that the words freedom, democracy, and liberation are not distorted from their true meaning as we have understood them. There would be . little use in punishing the Hitlerites for their crimes if law and justice didnot rule and if totalitarian or police governments were to take the place of the German invaders. "We seek nothing for ourselves. But we must sure that those causes which we fought for find recognition at the peace table in facts as well as words. Above all we must; labour so that the world organisation which the United Nations axe creating at Sih Francisco does not become an idle name, does not become * shieldforthe strong and a mockery the weak. lt is the victors who must search- their hearts in their glowing-boi|rs and.. be, worthy, by their nobuity,: of the immense forces they wield.' ' ■ “Beyond an lies Japan; harassed ahd q falling, but still a people of a himified millions for whose war lords death, bks few terrors. I cannot tell you faowmnch tune or what exertions- WHl' i quired to compel them tomake ammo* for their odious treachery and crtulty,.We have received horrible injuries;; from them ourselves and we arebsfenji by ties of honour and fraternil ioytiHy , to the United Stttel to ’‘We must remember- that AartRU&L New Zealand, and CbUMSttt >' pry tJuf : menaced by this evil torror. Ilw dew " to buraid In oiUt , must not leavq wft - which concerns their safety, U* r - f*told you hard things at the been- . n*?® t P TdlNpd - not gbrttijk, did not still cry,unswerving, ard ■- whole taskis# me andtMwholhworid t . is safe and clean/• i ' - ,

CHURCHILL RLAMES

- GERMANS ENABLED TO i ■: CLOSE SBABOCTBS

(Reg, 5f am.) VuMbfe4fc££,, The danacr causodto -Hriyk. hy the. > especially in 1841, waS referred*toby Mr Churchill 4n He said >that Britete^m^wSSro'./r great «Bt^alnt-M$raSSS against Eire and Valera. of \«nv^pnS-iffi might turn to itraMiaattcm ter hinvy , on usv with only the aofte-wait ctti v proacnes between Ulster wruf-sStland ■ with which to briar in the means of : Weandsendputfee fwtei OTWt/ “Because of ffie actJfflft ei ' Valera, so .much at varSmcr with the. temper andinstlnctof the thoustUMsef - Muthern Irishmen battlelront to prove tbeic anstent' , valour,. the. approaches southern Irish so easilyhavc guarded wer€«Ssbd hj hostile^ cSe 1 Quarter*■SaMpß}.;: Vtfera or, U earth. “However, with a restraint to which, I venture to say, MrtMy^sl 4 V find tew w&S&m W ' .*i lent hands upon litem, wmirn at iu£ : have eminent to frolic &e later Japanese to their-hearts’ content" i. - . Mr Churchill, after >referrlng to the blitz of 1940, added that the dawn of 1941 raveaied Britain stui in jeopardy. Hostile aircraft could’fly across, the approaches to the islands. They could fly in a single ffight from Brest to Norway, or back agate, and observe the movements ,of stepping in mid out of the Clyde and Mersey, and direct against eonvoys the large and increasing numbers of U-boats with which the enemy bespattered the Atlantic, and the successors of which war*' now being collected in British harbours. “When I think of these days MMnfr also of Lieutenant-Commander Etmonde, V.C., D.5.0., Lanee-Cojportl Kennely, V.C., Captain Fogarty Vegan. V.C., of the Jervis Bay, an d a »oj»M others l could still recHC ana this t must confess that bitterness fprtne Irish race dies in roy heart,” said Mr ” Churchill. He could only pray, that in the years which he would not see the shame would be forgotten and the glories would endure, and the peoples of the British Isles and British Common* wealth would walk together in mutual comprehension and forgiveness.

IRISH LEARN ABOUT NAZI TERROR

CENSORED PRESS ONLY NOW PRINTING NEWS

, LONDON. May 14. “Only now are the Irish people learning about the Nazi terror, in Europe,” says the Dublin correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph." Irish newspiptri were allowed to publish nothing Whatever. ;bout the extermination camps end other brutalities until the censorship was lifted at the week-end.

“A Dublin newspaper for the first time to-day publishes .pictures of Buchenwald. war films will be shown when booking arrangements are made. “The former German Minister, who is now living as a private citizen, intends to remain in Eire. ' “The most lonely people in Ireland ore the Japanese Consul and Vice-Con-sul. vhb have been ignored since Gcrmany’s collapse, and are no longer protected by the severe newspaper censorship.”

Mrr Churchill Back From Russia.Mn Chnrrh’ll rrturrH f-om Hucei* by ?>r on She was met bv the Prime Minister.—London, May 13.