MR. CHURCHILL’S ORATORY

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 February 1942, Page 6

MR. CHURCHILL’S ORATORY

TRADE COUNCIL DECISION

LONDON, February 14

“We must break loose from the stupifyin? magic of Mr. Churchill’s oratory,”~said the seere_tary__of the London Trade Council (Mr. Willis), in an address to. delegates., “Fine words don’t, win battles, Whenever we suffer a reverse we are treated to a, superb example of mastery of the English language, the nation being drugged bv high-sounding phrases. The Council delegates passed a resolution severely cirticising the conduct of the war, and calling on the Government to eliminate vested . interests, which they blamed for holding up production. BRITISH ARMY*“PRIVILEGE.” (Reed. 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 15. Declaring that the war could be won only by securing the assistance of everybody adble and willing to figm Hitler, Mr Wedgwood, M.P., speaking to the Hampstead Zionist Society, said: It appears the fixed and settled principle of the British Army that it is the exclusive privilege of Englishmen to lav down their lives for liberty. This exclusive principle is dangerous to the Empire. We might have had 500,000 trained Chinese troops fighting on our side in Malaya, but for this Army attitude. What are we doing to let the Indians arm and defend themselves? The Japanese are uncommonly near the Indian Empire. Is Indit to be reserved for gentlemen to defend? The Jews in Palestine have raised 50,000 men—three divisions were fully equipped by Jews in America —to defend their country, il the War Office had permitted them to do so, but they were not even permitted to form Home Guards. ft maddens the Jews, who have only one desire, namely, to get into tne, British Army, Navy, and Air force, and kill Hitlerism,