CHURCHILL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4523, 14 January 1942, Page 4

CHURCHILL

FLAIR FOR ORATORICAL EFFECT SPEECH IN FRENCH One of the characteristics of Mr Churchill’s speech-making is his flair for oratorical incident'. These linger in the memory. His very fine address to the Canadian Dominion Parliament provides an interesting example. At one stage of it he broke off to deliver, in French, a graceful compliment to the French Canadians, whose political home is the old province of Quebec—in the early days of its history known as “ New France.” Quebec is an outstanding illustration of the British policy of “ live and let live.” To go into this province is to live for a space in a different atmosphere from the rest of Canada, an old-world atmosphere where the language is French and the habits and customs of the people are derived from French traditions. Yet in their political sentiments there is no question about the loyalty of the FrenchCanadians to Britain. The war has intensified it. In a speech in June last the Premier of Quebec, Mr Adelard Godbout, made that very clear. “ You will find very few people," he said, “ who do not realise that we French-Canadians are treated better under the British Crown than we would have been under our mother country, France. We are British as much as anyone, are in this war to fight to the end, and are willing to bear any sacrifice asked of us.”