DUTY TO MANKIND

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20649, 27 December 1941, Page 6

DUTY TO MANKIND

END AGGRESSION TASK BEFORE ALLIES "FAITH IN OUR CAUSE" (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Aesri.) I British Cliicial Wireless, , Reccl. 1.30 p.m. RUGBY, Dec. 20. Listeners throughout Britain have been thrilled not only at the inspiring message delivered by the Prime Minister, '• Mr. Winston Churchill, to the joint session in Washington of the Senate and the House, but also by the warmth of the welcome he was given. The cheers which greeted him throughout his speech are felt here to demonstrate that friendship of the two peoples which guarantees complete sympathy, understanding, and support in the joint struggle.

After a reference to his American forebears, Mr. Churchill said: “I am assured that the people of Britain will approve very highly of my journey here, for which I obtained the King's permission, to meet President Roosevelt and arrange with him for all that mapping out of our military plans and for all those intimate meetings of high officers of the services in both countries that are indispensible for the prosecution of the war. “The forces ranged against us are enormous. They are ruthless, wicked men and factions who have launched their peoples on the path of war and conquest. I know that they will be called to a terrible account. If they cannot be beaten down by the force, of the peoples they have assaulted they will stop at nothing. They have a vast accumulation of war weapons of all kinds, highly trained armies, navies, and air forces. They will stop at nothing that violence and treachery can suggest. It is true that on our side are resources in manpower and material far greater than theirs, but only a portion of you are mobilised and developed and we, both of us, have much to learn of the cruel art of war ”

Galaxy of Loyal Friends

Mr. Churchill added that provided that every effort was made and nothing kept back, and the whole manpower, brain-power, virility, valour, and virtue of the English-speaking V/orld, with all its galaxy of loyal friends associated in a common effort, it was reasonable to hope that by the end of 1942 would see us definitely in a better position than now and that 1943 would enable us to assume the initiative upon an ample scope. “I am sure this day that now we are masters of our fate. The task which has been set us is not above our strength. The pangs and toil:; are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our cause and unconquerable will-power, salvation will not be denied us. Not all the tidings will be evil. Mighty strokes already have been dealt against the enemy. The glorious defence by the Russian armies and people have nflicted defeat upon the Nazi tyranny Boastful Mussolini has crumpled and already has been stripped of his African empire.” Later in his speech Mr. Churchill asked: “Do we not owe it to ourselves, our children, and tormented mankind to see that these catastrophies do not engulf us a third time? Five or six years ago it wouif have been easy, without bloodshed for the United States and Britain to t>we insisted on the fulfilment of disarmament. The chance has departed. Prodigious hammer strokes have been needed to bring us together to-day.”