NO EASY WAY OUT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1941, Page 7

NO EASY WAY OUT

MINISTER'S WARNING

DANGER OF "DAY-DREAMS"

DEFEAT OF ENEMY HARDLY BEGUN

RUGBY, August 24. "Do not let us be carried away into the romantic belief that the war will be won for us in the American factories," said the Home Secretary, Mr. Herbert Morrison, in a speech in south Wales today. "Is any economist prepared to say even now that the war production of Britain, together with the supplies from America, is greater than the whole war output of Germany—with practically the whole of industrial Europe at her disposal? Have we yet made headway in reducing Germany's tremendous lead over us in equipment for mechanised war? I doubt it. Mr. Morrison condemned "daydreams," which, he said, were unworthy of a great people. "They are dangerous; they take the keen edge off our war effort at home," he said. "We really must make up our minds that all the time we are facing the most deadly military Power in history, and that the progress of defeating it has hardly yet even begun," the Minister said. "Remember that in the last war the Germans, who were certainly no stronger than today, fought a tremendous full-scale war on two major fronts throughout four years. Continued Russian success in staving off the German onslaught means that we shall be given a few more months in which to make a great effort before renewal of the ! German attacks in the spring. "There is only one way to make sure of victory: to think of war as something that can be won only by a tremendous personal effort on the part of each one of us. Let us not tempt Providence by dreams of an easy way out. There is no easy way out." Dealing with the problems of postwar reconstruction, Mr. Morrison said: "I rejoice that in the concluding point of the Atlantic charter President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill have declared plainly that arms must be taken out of the hands of 'those who have shown themselves unfit to possess them, and must be entrusted to those whose purposes are peaceful and constructive. The armed might of America, Britain, and the fighting Allies must be the basic guarantee for the future in the dangerous transition years immediatelyafterthewar£—B.O.W.