WANTS ACTION NOW
MR. WILLKIE ON WAR SITUATION
CHUNGKING, October 3
"The common man in all the United Nations feels that the time has come to take the offensive everywhere. Timid souls will not win the war. It will be won only by bold, courageous men inspiring their peoples to undertake and carry through bold plans. "Timid souls always find reasons for delay in aggressively pushing on to victory," said Mr. Wendell Willkie, when addressing a banquet given by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
Mr. Willkie continued: "I have learned that the ordinary citizen from Cairo to Moscow and Chungking is a lover of liberty, and wants action, and action now. The citizen is ahead of the leaders.
"The citizen wants the job done, and he no longer fears the myth that Japan and Germany are invincible. The citizen is annoyed that much of the might of the United Nations is idle, awaiting action on some future day. "The ordinary citizen is ready now. We must catch his infectious spirit of enthusiasm for an immediate slashing attack."
Marshal Chiang, in a speech, said: "Mr. Willkie will see the destruction
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 83, 5 October 1942, Page 4
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