RESCUING HUMANITY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 26 August 1941, Page 8

RESCUING HUMANITY

MR CHURCHILL PROUD OF BRITAIN TALK WITH DOROTHY THOMPSON London, Aug . 8. | “I'm nothing; don’t bother about the! 'bigwigs, but talk to the people.” Mr Winston Churchill told Miss Dorothy Thompson, in an exclusive interview published in the “New York Post." "He likes to surround himself with j a sympathetic atmosphere of pretty j women and young friends,” she says. "He arrives late for meals, dressed in : a siren suit. ! "He drums absent-mindedly with hisj [fingers on the table, and always has) an eye hatefully turned toward Hitler. "He speaks of English people with a cool fury. “ ‘They suffer and do not whimper during this stupid war, which would never have happened if we had not been so blind,’ he says. ‘This war should have been won before we fought it, yet now we must fight to the end. “ 'The people of Bermondsey and | Stepney have lost everything through bombs—the savings of a lifetime, some j pitiful sticks of furniture, curtains, bed linen and crockery. You will see some old woman fishing about in debris seeking pieces of her wedding china, so she can match it some time. “ 'The English people saved Britain, j They deserve to win and deserve to win gloriously, and they shall. " ‘No one can govern England again who forgets the people.’ ” Mr Churchill went on: "What a stake! Three-fourths of the world’s peoples—Chinese villagers, people on the Russian steppes, cowering men and women in Poland, in those rabbit-war-rens in Paris, in the dykes and fjords of Holland and Norway—crying silently to the Anglo-Saxon world to rescue them. “The price of this suffering is our transitory lives. Not all of us will grow old. There will be much to do when all this is finished. "Why should the people work and toil, never to have a full belly or a secure roof, with wealth wasting everywhere? "Why not strike an international balance-sheet and share the surplus commodities? "This can be a wonderful world or a shambles, and a prison. It will be wonderful if you help to make it so. We can do it only with the help of the Americans.”