BRITAIN’S POLICY DEFENDED

Southland Times, Issue 24420, 28 April 1941, Page 5

BRITAIN’S POLICY DEFENDED

AID GIVEN TO GREECE

WASHINGTON, April 27.

Lord Halifax, the British Ambassador to the United States, addressing the Atlanta Bar Association tonight, said: “Justice is inseparable from liberty. Wherever you find a long tradition of liberty you also find a long tradition of justice. They are now in peril. All that our fathers fought for and all that we hold most precious are threatened by the Nazi menace. Each day spells a new tragedy for the present generation. For the millions of people in England tonight the balance of life and death hangs on the hair of incalculabe chance.

“In Greece we were well aware that we could not bring a comparable strength to match that which the Germans could bring. It surely was right to help those who had so gallantly espoused the cause of freedom. It was certainly right to make the enemy pay dearly for what he got on a scale that will not be without effect when known in Germany.

“In Egypt the German thrust is now held. I have small doubt that General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Forces in the Middle East, and Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, can, between them, be relied upon to turn the present situation to the best advantage. The British people and the world owe an unpayable debt to Mr Winston Churchill for his undaunted courage in very dark days. The world is fortunate to have two great leaders like President Roosevelt and Mr Churchill. With your help and as the sea power of Britain presses inexorably with every month that passes, I have no doubt that these two men will begin to have more to say about the future of the world than Hitler and Mussolini.”