FAITH UNDAUNTED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20151, 22 January 1940, Page 7

FAITH UNDAUNTED

CAUSE OF ALLIES CHURCHILL’S SPEECH WARNING TO NEUTRALS SHOULD HELP WIN WAR SERVING COMMON CAUSE (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Jan. 22, 10 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 21. “Joybells shall ring again” was the keynote of a broadcast talk by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Winston Churchill, who, nevertheless, warned neutrals to unite with Britain and France in order to speedily win the war. Mr. Churchill emphasised that despite Herr Hitler’s threats to the Allies it was the small neutrals that had thus far borne the brunt of German malice.

“Britain and France need not seek a respite,” he said. “Half Germany’s U-boats have been sunk and her construction is far in arrears. Our faithful Asdic detector (hydrophone listening device) locates the U-boats whose strength we shall break with the aid of the air force. Mines do not present an insoluble problem. “The Deutschland escaped by the skin of her teeth, but the Graf von Spee sticks up a grisly monument of the fate of any Nazi warship dabbling 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. The nations whose ships accept our guidance will not only live but thrive.” Finland’s Magnificence

After referring to the apprehensions of Belgians, Swiss, Rumanians, Scandinavians, and Netherlanders, Mr. Churchill resumed: "Only Finland, superb, nay sublime, in the jaws of peril, shows what free men can do. Finland’s service to mankind is magnificent. She has exposed for the world to see the military incapacity of the Red Army and air force. All can see how communism proves a nation base and abominable in war. What is left of civilised mankind could contemplate no more mournful spectacle than the reduction of this splendid race to servitude by force of overwhelming numbers. “Meanwhile, neutrals bow to German threats, hoping that Britain and France, will win and each thinking that if he feeds the crocodile enough the crocodile will eat him last. But the storm will spread southward and northward. v

“There is no chance of a speedy end except through unity. Nothing would remain for the smaller States if Britain and France made a-shame-ful peace but division between the barbarisms of nazism and bolshevism. The most hopeful influence upon the action of neutrals is their increasing sense of the Allies' power. Nazi Disintegration

“We face numerical odds, but that is no new thing in our history. Will power, sea power, financial and natural resources, and a cause which rouses the human spirit in millions of hearts have proved decisive factors in the human story. How otherwise would men have risen above apes? Numbers do not daunt us. We need not doubt the power of the Empire aligned with France. We shall not be found wanting. "We see disintegration behind the brazen fronts of Nazidom—shortages of raw materials, the hesitancy of divided counsels, doubts which undermine those who depend on force alone. “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 joybells will ring again throughout Europe, when the victorious nations will plan and build in justice, tradition, and freedom a house of many mansions where there shall be room for all.”