MR CHAMBERLAIN CONFIDENT
MISCALCULATIONS OF GERMANS
(British Official Wireless) RUGBY, April 16. In a brief speech to the Free Church Council in London the Prime Minister (Mr Neville Chamberlain) said:— “Every day that passes gives us some new demonstration of Germany’s utter disregard of religion, mercy, truth and justice. “If the Germans were to triumph in what they are doing every fortress that has been built up by civilization upon the principles of Christianity would go down and the world would relapse into that barbarism which only a little time ago we thought to have been buried in centuries of progress. It won’t go down. “Only a short while ago I declared that I felt 10 times as confident as I did at the beginning of the war of our ultimate victory. I repeat that confidence today. “Germany has made many miscalculations but none greater than this,” Mr Chamberlain continued. “This war will be won by the spiritual forces of the world as much as by the material power of our brave defenders. These spiritual forces have been affronted by what Germany has done and is doing.”
Mr Chamberlain said that, after the latest outrage of those monsters of wickedness in Germany who would seem to shut the gates of mercy against mankind, all his thoughts had been occupied with how to counter that stroke.
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Southland Times, Issue 24104, 18 April 1940, Page 8
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