BIG GERMAN LOSS OF LIFE
NO STATEMENT TO PEOPLE BY HITLER (British Official Wireless) (Received June 24, 6.30 p.m.) RUGBY, June 23. . An item of recent foreign Press comment which has been noted here with special interest—as it implies a clear recognition of an essential truth, but one not so easily grasped abroad as it is at home—is an extract from The San Francisco Chronicle’s observations on Mr Churchill’s speech'in the House of Commons on Tuesday last. This newspaper contrasts the position of the leaders on the two sides in the conflict between Germany and Britain. “This is not Mr Churchill’s war as it is Hitler’s war,” it states. “It is not the Government’s war as it is the Nazis’ war. It is on the British side a war of free men ready to fight for their freedom. Would Hitler dare to state the case frankly and so calmly to the German peoples? Would he dare to tell the German people the price they have paid in blood for his triumphs? We doubt it. We have yet to hear him report that he paid 1,000,000 German boys’ lives for a salient and figured it a bargain.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24161, 25 June 1940, Page 5
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