BROADCAST BY MR CHURCHILL

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21250, 22 October 1940, Page 5

BROADCAST BY MR CHURCHILL

“MUST NOT GET AT LOGGERHEADS”

FIGHTING FOR CAUSE OF EUROPEAN FREEDOM

(Official Wireless)

(Received October 22, 11 a.m.)

RUGBY, Oct. 21

The Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, broadcast in French to the French people tonight and afterwards repeated the address in English. He said:—

“ For more than thirty years, in peace and war, I liave marched with you and I am marching still along the same road. Tonight I speak to you at your firesides, wherever you may be, whatever your fortunes. I repeat the prayer: ‘Dieu protege La France.’

“ Here at home in England, under the fire of the Boehe, we do not forget the ties and links which unite us to France, and we are persevering steadfastly in good heart in the cause of European freedom and fair dealing for the common people of all countries, for which with you we drew T the sword.

When good people get into trouble because they are attacked and heavily smited by the vile and wicked they must he very careful not to get at loggerheads with one another. The common enemy is always trying to bring this

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id luck lots of things happen lands. We must just make the long.

“ Here in London, which ashes and which his aeroplai people are hearing up unflii more than held its own. We promised invasion. So are t is only the beginning.

Hitler says will be reduced to nes are now bombardiup, our nchingly. Our air force has are still waiting for the Jongthe fishes. But of course this

Command of Seas and Air “Now, in 1940, in spite of occasional losses, we have, as ever, the command of the seas. In 1941 we shall have command of the air. Remember what this means. “Hitler, with tanks and other mechanical weapons, also by Fifth column intrigue, has managed to subjugate for the time being most of the finest races of Europe and his little Italian accomplice is trotting: along hopefully and hungrily but rather wearily and very timidly at his side. “They both wish to break up Britain and the Empire as if it were a fowl, to one a leg. to another a wing or again part of the breast. Not only the French Empire will be devoured by these two hungry customers, but Alsace-Lorraine will go once again under the German yoke and Nice, Savoy and Corsica —Napoleon’s Corsica—will be torn from the fair realm of France.

“Viva la France! Long live the forward march of the common people in all lands towards their just and true inheritance.”

“But Hitler is not thinking only of stealing another people’s territories or flinging gobbets of them to his little confederate. “I tell you truly what you must believe. This evil man, this monstrous abortion of hatred and defeat, is resolved on nothing less than the complete wiping out of the French nation and the disintegration of its whole life and future. By all kinds of sly and savage means he is plotting and working to quench for ever the fountain of characteristic French culture and French inspiration to the world. Bullied by Nazi Gangsters “All Europe, if he has his way, will be reduced to one uniform Bocheland, to be exploited, pillaged and bullied by the Nazi gangsters. You will excuse my speaking frankly like this, because this is not a time to mince words. “It is not defeat which France is now to be made to suffer at German hands, but the doom of complete obliteration. The Army, Navy, Air Force, religion, laws, language, culture, institutions, literature, history, tradition—all are to be effaced by the brute strength of a triumphant army and the scientific low cunning of a | ruthless police force. | “Frenchmen, rearm your spirits beI fore it is too late. Never will I believe | that the soul of France is dead or that j her place among the greatest nations | of the world has been lost forever. “All these schemes and crimes of Hitler are bringing upon him and upon all who belong to his system retribution which many of us will live to see. “The story is not yet finished, but ic will not be so long. We are on his track and so are our friends across the Atlantic Ocean and your friends across .the Atlantic ocean. “We Will Destroy Him” “If he cannot destroy us we will surely destroy him and all his gang and all their works. Therefore have hope and faith, for all will come right. “Now what is it we British ask of you in this present hard and bitter time? What we ask at this moment in our struggle to win the victory which we will share with you is that if you cannot help us at least you will not hinder us. Presently you will be able to weight the arm that strikes for you, and you ought to do so. “But even now we trust that Frenchmen, wherever they may be, will feel their hearts warm and the proud blood tingle in their veins when we have some success in the air or on the sea or presently—for that will come—upon the land. Pledged to Save World “Remember that we shall never cease, never weary, never give in, and that our whole people and Empire have vowed themselves to the task of cleansing Europe from the Nazi pestilence and saving the world from the new dark ages. “Do not imagine, as the Germancontrolled wireless tells you, that we English seek to take your ships and colonies. We seek to beat the i life and soul out of Hitler and ; Hitlerism—that alone, that all the ! time, that to the end. We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

“Some Frenchmen who are in the French Empire and those in the socalled unoccupied France may see their way, from time to time, to useful action. I will not go into details; hostile ears are listening. “Goodnight. Sleep to gather strength for the morning—for the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.