EMPIRE'S EFFORT
GREATEST IN HISTORY
STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE'
UNDER NO ILLUSION
(By Telegraph—rress Association —Copyright.)
(Received December 13, 11 a.m.)
LONDON, December 12.
The Minister of Supply (Dr. E. L. Burgin), in a-speech, said: "By any terms you care to employ, the Erh* pire's war effort is gigantic. Well might Hitler have shrunk from being at war with the Empire. We arc under no illusion. We realise that our existence is menaced. Threatened, we take up the challenge. I believe it to be demonstrated that the effort which Britain is making is greater than anything comparable in history. Never has the might of the Empire been greater, nor the fighting forces better" or more adequately equipped."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 142, 13 December 1939, Page 11
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116EMPIRE'S EFFORT Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 142, 13 December 1939, Page 11
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