“SACRIFICES NOT IN VAIN”

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26633, 19 January 1952, Page 7

“SACRIFICES NOT IN VAIN”

Whatever course events might take h Korea in the near future, he was sure that the sacrifices made there were not in vain, Mr Churchill continued. The cause of world law and the foundations of the United Nations had been deepened and strengthened and they stood, not on paper, but on rock. Congress cheered when Mr Churchill •aid he had not come to the United States to ask for money to make life more comfortable or easier for the British people. “Our standards of life are our own business and we can only keep our •elf-respect and independence by looking after them ourselves,” he said. After the war, Britain unwisely and contrary to American advice, accepted as normal debts almost £4.000,000.000 of claims from countries she had supported or protected from invasion. Britain had accepted this instead of niaking counter-claims, which would have reduced the burdens on her own •boulders. In addition, Britain was repaying a

big post-war dollar loan and had given European and Asiatic countries £1300,000,000 in unrequited exports. This was more than the British could manage without undue strain. Britain had one-third the population of the United States, and much less than one-third of the United States wealth. Britain’s recovery, while it had been retarded, had been continuous. . ... “Do not suppose that Britain will not come through the present dark years of adversity,” Mr Churchill said. He had come to the United States, not to ask for gold, but for steel; not for favours, bujt for equipment. “That is why many of our requests have been so well and generously met. There was further applause when Mr Churchill said: “During the war we bore our share of the burden and fought from the first to the last unconquered and, for a while, alone, to the utmost limit of our resources. “Your majestic obliteration of all that you gave us under lend-lease will never be forgotten by this generation of Britons or by history.”