FEARLESS AND CHEERING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 126, 30 April 1941, Page 7

FEARLESS AND CHEERING

PREMIER’S MESSAGE WELCOMED (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 28. Mr Churchill’s impressive speech was heard by an immense audience throughout tho British Empire and in the United States. There is also every reason to believe that its fearless and heartening message was carried to a vast number of homes in onemy-occu- ! pied Europe, despite all the Nazi efforts to suppress it. | The speech was delivered too late j for full and considered appraisal in the I British Press, but early comment seizes I upon two main points, first, that there jare no regrets that British aid to Greece has been forthcoming, and, sec;ond, that the greatest battle of this i world war must he fought on the AtI lantic, in which battle United States | aid is of over-increasing importance. | In the United States Press comment lis emphatic in support of Mr I Churchill’s view of the importance of j the Battle of the Atlantic, and is equally convinced that the fortunes of | America are scarcely less concerned in | the outcome of this battle than are those of Britain herself. Tn the British Press Mr Churchill’s survey is applauded for the fact that it slurred over j none of the tragic events in the Bal- j leans and acknowledged the surprise | and disappointment suffered in j Cvrcnaica. !

“But,” says the Daily Telegraph, “lie set all events in their true perspective and proportion. Lot Hitler drive where lie can in the Near East. Middle East, and Far East. He will find no escape from the grip of the sea and the marshalling armaments of Britain and the United States. He must conquer us by invasion or out the lifeline by which American supplies and munitions reach us, or fail utterly and fall.”