NO GESTAPO WHIP

Evening Star, Issue 23829, 8 March 1941, Page 12

NO GESTAPO WHIP

YET FREE BRITAIN GIRDED FOR VICTORY COMPLETE NATIONAL UNITY (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 7.. (Received March 8, at noon.) Broadcasting in the 8.8.C.’s LatinAmerican service early . to-day, Mr Bevin spoke of the national unity achieved in Britain. The whole-hearted support which all classes are giving to the winning of the war was explained by the fact that everyone was quite clear as to the issues. The Nazi menace was very near, and the people had voluntarily surrendered rights arid privileges which they cherished in order to make more certain the defeat of the Nazi threat to their lives and liberties. “ In other words,” he said, “ this great democracy has imposed upon itself these overwhelming measures of self-discipline. Happily, even in this struggle this very unity of sacrifice has produced opportunities of working out innovations that will prove of great benefit to the community after the war. We are learning new ways, necessity, that great mother of invention, causing the old to give way to the new, and demonstrating that a free people can organise itself with great efficiency. Without the Gestapo whip, the gun, or persecution, we have built up a very powerful army 'and navy with: incredible speed. Our Air Force development is nothing short of a miracle, and this' has been accomplished notwithstanding the. fact that large numbers .of pur people had to leave industry to join the fighting services. It is a demonstration of the will of the British people to win the war, and its momentum is gaining speed. Production is going up daily. We are doing without luxuries and reducing our wants to absolute essentials, and every section of managements and workers is working with a will to achieve victory.” - BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ADMISSION OF BELGIUM SUGGESTED STATESMAN ENVISAGES DEFENSIVE FEDERATION LONDON, March 7. (Received March 8, at 2 p.m.) “ I favour. Belgium seeking admission to the (British Commonwealth of Nations,” said M. Camille Huysmans, a Belgian politician, in an interview., "I know that here in London statesof other smaller European nations are thinking similarly. They regard the Commonwealth as the nucleus' of an even larger federation of t democracies and’the basis-of a defensive organisation which will compel Germany to renounce aggression and become eventually a good European.”