Churchill Has No Doubt What Resolve Will Be

Northern Advocate, 17 June 1941, Page 5

Churchill Has No Doubt What Resolve Will Be

[British Official Wireless] (Received noon.) RUGBY, June 36. MR, CHURCHILL, BROADCASTING TO THE UNITED STATES TONIGHT ON THE OCCASION OF HIS ACCEPTANCE OF THE HONORARY DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF CIVIL LAW AT ROCHESTER UNIVERSITY, RECALLED THE FACT THAT ROCHESTER WAS THE HOME TOWN OF HIS MOTHER. HIS MOTHER WAS BORN THERE. “What touched me most in this ceremony,” lie said, “is that sense of kinship and unity which I feel exists between us this afternoon.” Strong' tides of emotion, said Mr. Churchill,' fierce surges of passion, sweep the broad expanses of the union in this year of fate.

No Doubt What Resolve Will Be “In this prodigious travail there are many elemental forces,” he said. “There is much heart-searching and self-questioning, some pangs, some sorrow, some conflict of voices, but no fear.

est hopes of a dozen States and nations' now gripped and tormented in base, cruel servitude. “Whatever happens we shall endure to the end. “But what is the explanation of the enslavement of Europe by the German Nazi regime? How did they do it? It is but a few years ago since one united gesture by peoples, great and small, who are now broken in the dust, would have warded off from mankind the fearful ordeal it had to undergo. Price of Division “But there was no unity, there was no vision. Nations were pulled down, one by one, while others gaped and chattered. One by one, each in his turn, they let themselves be caught; one after another they were felled by brutal violence or poisoned from within by subtle intrigue. “And now the old lion, with her lion cubs at her side, stands alone against the hunters, who are armed \yith deadly weapons and impelled by a desperate, destructive rage. . . “Every month that passes adds to the length and perils of the journey that will have to be made. ; “United we stand, divided we fall. Divided the’dark age returns, united' we can save and guide the world.”

“The world is witnessing the birth throes of sublime resolve. I shall presume to confess to you that I have no doubts what that resolve will be. “Wickedness —enormous, panoplied, embattled and seemingly triumphant—casts its shadow over Europe and Asia. Laws, customs and traditions arc broken up, justice is cast from hei seat, the rights of the weak are trampled down; the grand freedoms of which the President of the United States has spoken so movingly are spurned and chained. “The whole structure of. man, his genius,’ his initiative and his nobility, is ground down under systems of mechanical barbarism and of organised and scheduled terror. » We Shall Endure “For more than a year we British have stood alone, uplifted by your sympathy and respect, and sustained by our own unconquerable will power and by the increasing _ growth and hopes of your massive aid. “In these British islands that look' so small upon the map we stand faithful guardians of tide rights and, dear-