“Joybells Shall Ring Again”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21558, 22 January 1940, Page 7

“Joybells Shall Ring Again”

Allies Will Liberate Europe

Spirited Speech by Mr Churchill

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received January 21, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 20. « lOYBELLS SHALL RING AGAIN” was the keynote J of a broadcast talk by Mr Winston Churchill, who nevertheless warned neutrals to unite with Britain and France, in order speedily to win the war. Mr Churchill

emphasised that in spite of Hitler’s threats to the Allies, it was the small neutrals that had thus far borne the brunt of German malice. “Britain and France need not seek a respite. Half of Germany’s U-boats had been sunk and her construction was far in arrears. Our faithful asdic detector (hydrophone listening device) locates U-boats, whose strength we shall break with the aid of the Air Force. Mines do not present an insoluble problem. The Deutschland escaped by the skin of her teeth, but the Graf Spee sticks up as a

grisly monument of the fate MB winston churchill of any Nazi warship dabbling in piracy upon broad waters. Marine losses lie ahead of us, but things are not going so badly. Indeed, they never have gone so well in any naval war. The nations whose ships accept our guidance will not only live but thrive.”

After referring to the apprehensions of the Belgians, Swiss, Rumanians, Scandinavians and Netherlanders, Mr Churchill resumed: “Only Finland superb, nay, sublime, in the jaws of peril shows what free men can do. Finland's service to mankind is magnificent. She has exposed for the world to see the military incapacity of the Red army and air force. All can see how Communism proves a nation base and abominable in war. What is left of civilised mankind could contemplate a no more mournful spectacle than the reduction of this splendid race to servitude by the force of overwhelming numbers. Meanwhile neutrals bow to German threats, hoping that Britain and France will win, each thinking if he feeds the crocodile enough the crocodile will eat him last, but the storm will spread southward and northward. There is no chance of a speedy end except through unity. Nothing would remain for the smaller States if Britain and France made a shameful peace but division between the barbarisms of Nazism and Bolshevism. The most hopeful influence

upon neutrals action is their increasing sense of the Allied power. We face numerical odds, but that is no new thing in our history. Will power, sea power, financial and natural resources and a cause which rouses the human spirit in millions of hearts have proved the decisive factors in a human story. How otherwise would men have risen above the apes? Numbers do not daunt us. We need not doubt the power of the Empire aligned with France. We shall not be found wanting. We see disintegration behind the brazen fronts of Nazidom—shortages of raw materials, the hesitancy of divided counsels, the doubts which undermine those who depend on force alone. We shall in the bitter conflict before us keep nothing back nor be outstripped in any service to the common cause. The liberation of Warsaw, Prague and Vienna is sure. The day will come when joybells will ring again throughout Europe, when the victorious nations will plan and build in justice, tradition and freedom a house of many mansions where there shall be room for all.”