SPEEDS WINNING OF WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 18, 22 January 1940, Page 7

SPEEDS WINNING OF WAR

NECESSITY FOR UNITY WITH THE ALLIES

SPEECH BY MR. CHURCHILL

v - \ . (Official Wireless and U.P.A.) . ; . LONDON", January 2L - In a broadcast address, Mr. Winston Chiircbill/ First Lord of the Admiralty; warned neutral States to unite with Britain and France in order to win the war speedily. \... .' ■ . Mr. Churchill said it was the small neutral States that were bearing the brunt of German malice and!cruelty. "Each one of them,'' he said, ''is wondering tonight who will fee the next victim on whom the criminal adventurers of Berlin will cast their bending strokes. But what would happen if allthese neutral nations were with one spontaneous impulse to do their dutjr in accordance with the Covenant of the League and stand together with the British and French Empires against' aggression aiid wrong? • Vv- .:■ / 'f At present their plight; is lamentable, and it will become much worse. The^ bow humbly and in fear to German threats of violence, favouring them in many ways and comforting themselves meanwhile witli the thought that Britain and France will win, that they will strictly observe all the laws and donveni tions, and that breaches are only to be expected from the German sideX Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough the (crocodile wHI eat him last; All of them hope the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured, but the storm will not pots. It will rage and roar even more loudly and even }mbr6;widely. It will spread to the south; it will spread to the >:iwrthV:;-:^, ■"' V ■■' rl:\:- :- ■ ■■": '■■ ■ -.."/ l" ... .'. : \ ..-:. ••'■ ■ '.'■' .' ~' ■'• '• v;> ''There is no chance of a speedy end except through united action, and if at any time Britain and France, wearying of the struggle, were to make a shameful peace, nothing would remain for the smaller States of Europe,; with their shipping and their possessions, but to be divided /between the opposite though similar barbarians of Nazidom and Bolshevism."

In a,/ Warm tribute to Finland, WKose service %o mankind he described as Mr. Churchill Said: ''They have exposed for all the world to sgethetmilitary incapacity of the Red army \and the Red air force.^any illusions about. Soviet Russia have' been dispelled in these fierce weeks of fighting in the Arctic circle. Everyprie can see how Com-; munism rots the soul of a nation., how it "makes it ab j ect and hungry in peace, arid proves it base and abominable in war. If the light of freedom which still burns so brightly in the frozen north should be finally quenched, it might well herald a return to the dark ages when every vestige-of human progress during two thousand years would be engulfed." :;.

i"Tli;e Deutechlancl escaped by the skin of her teeth, but the Graf Spec sticks up a grisly monument of- the fate of ; any l^Tazi warship which dabbles in piracy upon /the ■ . broad waters. Marine losses lie ahead' of us, but things are nOt;going so badly; indeed, they have never gone so well in any naval war. Nations whose ships accept'our guidance will not only live but thrive:" . :'■-■ 7-'-}^. .'' r - ;i > ■' • ■;' .■

"The most hopeful influence upon the action of the neutrals is their increasing sense of. the Allies' : i power. 'yTe face numerical odds, but that is no he,w thing":;in! pur Will power, sea financial and natural ,resburces,. and a: cause which >rpuses a human spirit in millions of hearts have proved the decisive . factors in 'our human story. How otherwise 'would men have risen above the apes? '

"HOUSE lyiTH ROOM FOR ALL." "Numbers do; not, daunt us. We need

riot doubt; the power ..oif the ; Empire aligned.with. France. We shall not' be found "wanting; We .see disintegration behind .the brazen fronts of Nazidom--shortages ~Oi; '. raw .-.< materials, the hesi-. tancy of divided counsels, the, doubt" ■which imdermine those who d'epen oh force^alone. ".-..('" no -need >pR; allied respite;; "Britain and -France, need not seek a respite," he said; "Hqlf of Ger-

many's U-boats have been sunk and her construction is far in arrears. Our faithful "asdig". detector (anti-sub-marine detection indicator gear) locates the U-boats whose strength .we shall break with the aid of the Air Force. Mines do not present an insoluble problem.

ALLIES' INCREASING POWER. "We shall in the bitter conflict'before us keep nothing back, nor be outstripped in any service to the common cause. 'The liberation of Warsaw, Prague, and Vienna is sure. The. day will come when the jOybells' will ring again throughout ■ Europe', . when' the victorious natiQns will plan and build in justice, tradition, and freedom a house of many mansions where there shall be room for all."' ..'■■■.