Churchill Hurls Defiance: Bid To Rally Europe

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23023, 13 August 1949, Page 5

Churchill Hurls Defiance: Bid To Rally Europe

(11,45 a.m.) PARIS, Aug. 12.

‘ ‘ Are we to sink after ah our victories and sufferings into final chaos thrust upon us by barbarous and wicked oligarchies with fifth column agents infiltrating and busy in so many lands?” Mr. Winston Churchill asked when he addressed 20,000 people from a balcony overlooking the square in the heart of Strasbourg tonight.

He was speaking at a mass meeting sponsored by the European Movement. He said: “We have in our long history wiped out the dangers of religious wars and of dynastic wars, and I trust that after these 30 years of struggle we have reached the end of nationalistic wars.” The present dangers were real, but so was their strength and there was no reason why they should not achieve the aim and design of a United Europe whose moral conceptions would win the respect and gratitude of mankind and whose physical strength would be such that none would dare molest her tranquil sway. Stand Against Tyranny. nation in the world. It is not against any race or nation that we range ourselves. It is against tyranny in all forms that we stand upright and unflinching. “We must take all necessary steps and precautions to make sure that we have power and time to carry out that transformation of Europe in which the European Assembly now in session has a famous part to play.” Mr. Churchill said the Council of Europe must contribute to uniting Europe and in that way the road would be opened to the revival of prosperity and there would be protection against the totalitarian tyranny. “We hope and work for the age of peace and plenty when unmeasured riches and the genius of Europe will make her again the fountain of world inspiration.”,

_ ; While the rally was going on Stras- ! bourg Communists demonstrated in a square a quarter of a mile away.