HITLER AND CHURCHILL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 29 July 1941, Page 5

HITLER AND CHURCHILL

DOROTHY THOMPSON’S COMMENT To Dorothy Thompson, the far-famed j radio commentator and author, Hitler and Churchill are real symbols of the I struggle now going on in the world, j “On the one side.” she says, “is the furious, unhappy, frustrated and fanatic figure who has climbed to unprecedenled power on the piled-up bodies j ol millions of men, carried and pushjed upward by revolutionary forces, ! supported by vast hordes of youth cry - ; ing destruction to the whole past of | civilised man .. .” On the other side, stands a man who | was, and is, “a soldier, a sailor, an art list, and a poet, a man from whose ton- [ gue the English language falls with that candid simplicity which is its genius, and with that grandeur which is its glory ... a man who fights his last fight for the ways and speech of men who have never known a master.” "Who is the friend of the'white race?” Miss Thompson asks Hitler. “You. who have ganged up with Japan I to drive the white race out of Asia, or ' Churchill, v h believes i n the right of white men to live and work wherever \ they can hold their own on this planet?" Many other pertinent questions are directed at the crazed German leader by the voice from America, and a t the end she directs an assurance to the man who is the “master of the dyke against world chaos”: “There are no neutral hearts. Winston Churchill, except those that have stopped beating.” she says. “There are no neutral prayers. Our hearts and ' cur prayers say: ‘God give vou i strength. God bless you.’ May you live i to cultivate your garden in a free : world, liberated from terror and per- j secution, war and fear.”