HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1941-02-13, Page 7THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1941
Churchill Gives
Pledge of Victory
M
Tells of British Sweep in Libya
—Reviews Other Events ui
War
The text portion of Prone I,Iini,t-
er Churchill's address, as transcribed
from the ,broadcast on Sunday after-
noon;
".Five months bare pissed .ince I
spoke to the British nation and
Ftntpire in a thtoadca,t. In war time
there is a lot to the said for the motto,
'1)eed, Noi Words.' Ml the saute, it
Is a good thing to look arounrl froth
time to tante and take stud., and cer-
tainly' ow- affairs have prospered in
several directions daring, these last
four or five months, far better than
most of Et, would have ventured to
1toPe,
"We have stood our :;round and
Eaced the two dictators in the hour of
what seemed their overwhelming
triumph, and we baro ;•boon our-
selves capable so far of staltdjog. 110
against theist alone.
"After the heavy defeats of the
German air force by our fighters in
At,gest and Septenvher, Herr Hitler
did not dare attempt the invasion ,of
this island, all1(011311 he had made
cast preparations, Baffied in this
grandiose project, he -might to break
the .spirit of the British nation Iby
the +bombing first erf London and af-
terwards of our ,great cities.
"11 has now Men Proved to the ad-
miration of the world and tb our
friends in the United States that this
form of '1lackitlatl 1)111 murder and
terrorism, so far a from weakening the
spirit of the British nation, has only
roused ft to a more intense and univ-
ersal flame than t(as over seen •beGa•1
in any modern ronuuunity.
"Ail through these dark winter
111011 1115 the enemy have had the 3)0311'
cr too drop three or four tons of
'hombs on ti's for every ton we could
send to Germany is return. We are
arranging so that presently this will
be rather tltc other way around. Ant
meanwhile 'London and aur big cities
have had to stand a pounding.
"All honor to the civil defence ser-
vices of all kinds, emergency and reg -
volunteer and professional, who
have helped our people through this
formidable ordeal, the like of which
no civilized community has ever been
called upon to thutergn.
',We have hroken the back of the
winter. The daylight grow'o, The Roy-
al Air force grow;, and is already
certainly master of the daylight air.
"The attacks may be sharper, but
they 'vitt be shorter. 'There will he
more opp0rtuuities for work andsee-
vice of all kind,; more opportunities
for life. So if our first victory was
the repulse of the invader, our sec-
ond was the frustration of his acts of
terror and of torture against .our :peo-
ple at home.
"'Meanwhile .abroad i11 October, a
wonderful thing happened. One of
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the two dictators, the crafty, cold-
blooded, 'black -hearted Malian, who
had 1hnu4ht to gain an Empire 011 the
cheap by stabbing fallen France in
the back, got into trouble, 'Without
the slightest provocation, stirred on
by lost of power and brutish agreed,
\fnssolini attacked and invaded
Gree1'e only to 'L11,e hurled (hack ignom-
iniously 41y the 'heroic Greek army,
who 1 will say, with your assent,
have revived before our eyes the glor-
ies which from the Classic .\ge 1;firl
their native land.
"While Signor \1usstllini was ovrith-
in4 and snorting under the (,reek lash
in Albania, General, \\'a,vell and Wil-
son, who are charged with the .def-
'euce• t�1 i? 'ypt and of the Suez Canal
in accordance with ourtreaty. 0111i¢-
:mons, whose task seemed at one
note s11 difficult, had received very
powcrfel reinf+ircemcnt. 'reinforce-
ment, of urea, cannon equipment and
above 13111 tanks, which ice had sent
front our :stand in spite of the Meas.
ion threat. And large numbers ,1f
troops from India, Australia and New.
,Zealand had also retched theist.
"Forthwith began that series +)f
victories in .141bva which have '•broken
irretrievably the Italian military
pdwr•r on the African continent. i\\'c
have all been entertained. and 1
trust edified •hy the exposure and
humiliation of another of +that By-
ron called 'Those 11(god things of
,ahtesway will- fronts of ,Inas, and
het of clay,
Isere, teen, in Libya is the third
considerable event 0)301 which we
may dwell will' some satisfaction. 1t
is just exactly- boo 111011th.. ago to a
day that I was waiting anxiously, but
ah so eagerly, for the news •oi the
counter -stroke which had been `plan-
ned against the Italian invader_ of
llrgypt, The secret had been well kept.
The preparations had 1)01111 well made,
,hut to leap across those 70 utiles of
desert and attack 1,0 or '1,1 divisions,
equipped with all the al>''pl'lallees of
modern war, and who had been forti-
fying themselves for three months:
That NerIS a most hazardous advent-
ure.
'i\Vhien the brilliant, decisive'vict-
ory at Sidi Parrani with its tens of
thott;sand, of prisoners, proved that
we had quality manoeuvring ,potter
and weapons superior to the enemy
who had (boasted so 11111011 of his vir-
ility and his military virtue, it was
evident that all the other Italian
forces in Eastern Libya were in great
dagger, They could not easily beat a
retreat along the coastal road without
running the risk of lining caught iu
the open by our armored divisions
and 'brigades ranging far out into the
desert in tremendous s't'009; and
scoops. They had to expose them-
selves to being attacked piecemeal.
"Gen. 'Wav01! -nay. till our leader,
and all 'brit- live, active, ardent men,
British, Australian 'Indian, 111 the
Imperial Army—saw their opportun-
ity. At that time 1 ventured to draw
Gen. AV'avell's attention to the SeVell-
th chapter of the tiosphel of St. Mal -
thew, at the seventh verse, where, a
you all know or ought to kunst', it is
written,'Ask and it ,hall the given;
cel: an<i we .Shall find; knock and it
shall he opened (Into you,' The artily
of the Nile has asked and it was giv-
en; they sought and they hawe found:
they knocked and it has ,been Opened
(1(1to 1110111.
"lnbarely eight weeks, by a cam-
paign which twill Ion. -be studied as a
model of the military art, an advance
of over 400 utiles has been made; the
whole Italian array in the east of Li-
bya, which was reputed to exceed 1150,
:000 men, has been captured or des-
troyed'; the entire Prctviftce of Cirena-
10a, nearly as big as ,England and
•Wales, has (been conquered: the un-
happy Arab tribes who have for 30
years suffered through the cruelty of
Italian rule, carried in 50111e cases to
the point of methodical extermination,
these IBedouht servlvor's have at hast
seen their .oppressors in disorderly
flight or led off in endless -droves as
prisoners of- war.
"Egypt and the Suez Canal are
sate, And the port, the base and the
air fields of 'Benlgasi constitute a strat-
egic ,point of high consequence to the
whole of the war in the Eastern Med-
iterranean.
"Nor would the campaign itself
have'been possible if the British 'Med-
iterranean fleet under 'Admiral "Cun-
ninlg'haan had not chased the Italian
navy into its 'harbors and sustained
every forward surge of the army with
all the the:1110 resources of sea potver.
"How 'far-reaching these 4esaurccs
arc, tee can see from what 'happened
at <law>n this morning when our West-
ern ,Mediterranean Fleet, under Ad-
miral ,Somerville, entered the Gulf of
Genoa and 'bombarded in a shattering
manner the naval base from which
perhaps 1 Nazi Germain !expedition
might soon 'have sailed to attack ,Gen.
1Wcygaird in Algeria or Tunis.
"It is ritght that the Italian people
should 'he made to 'feel the sorry
plight into which they have been
dragged 'by Dictator Mussolini, and
if the cannonade of Genoa, rolling
along the coast, reverberating in the
mountains, has reached the ears of
our French cnnlradc- in their grief
and misery, it ntay cheer theta with
the feeling that friends, aet1vo friends.
art 'tear anti than Britannia rales 1110
'wa0011.
"The event, 1u Libya are only part
of the .tort. They are only a part of
the .tory of the decline and fail of
tht 1(1tlia11 empire. That will )tot take
a future Gibbon so long to write as
the nrightal work.
"Fifteen hundred utiles away to the
southward, a strong British and In.
dull army 1110ing driven the invader,
out of the Slidell, is marrhing •tearllly
forward. through the ftaliai, colony of
Eritrea thus seeking to complete 1110
isolation of all the Italian troops in
\bv..infa. And while British forces
are entering . Abyssinia from the
(while they )lathered in Kenya, in the
01,11 rat S1- hill) ate tn•iv rli00e011 the
powerful Incoe. of the Union of
south. .\Erica 1 feeize,l thy Lieu.
Smut,,, are ,triton. 1 011itcxrrl along
the whole enormous front. Lastly, the
Ethiopian Patriot, 31,0.1 independ-
ence was stolen five year; a..to Mace
risen in arms and their emperor, so
recently in exile in England, is in
their'Bid01 to fight for their freedom
and his throne,
"Here, :then we see the .1W.41111111,4 of
a process of reparation and of the
chastisement of wrongdoing which
l ctnnrds us that though the mill, of
the gods grind 'lowly they grind ex-
ceeclin41) 311111!!
"'While these llspfcf01)0 events
have been carrying- us stride by .sonde
from what 111uny Mode. thought 0
forlorn position and once certainly a
very grave position, in May and June,
to one which nerntitn us to speak with
,eater r011firteuce or our power 10 dis-
011arge our duty, heavy though it be
in the future --while this has been
happening a mighty tide 01 sympathy,
of 3.t00(1 will and of effective aid tut,
begun to flow• across the .\tlantle in
support of the 100011! cense which is
at :take.
"Distinguished Americans have
('0(411 aver 1r. See 11111,4. here at the
front and to find ont flaw- the United
States ran help us hest and soonest.
"1 have been so very careful since
I've been prime 011(11ster not to en-
courage false tropes or 1rophe y
,11moth and easy things, and yet 1110
tale that 1 tell must justly and rightly
sive Its 02111se for deep thankfulness
and also, 1 thing:, for sound comfort
and even rejoicing.
"We may be sure that the war is
soon going to entre a1410a a plias). of
greater violence. Hitler's confederate,
Mussolini, has reeled ha.cic in Albania.
Put the Nazis, having absorbed Hnto-
gary and driven Rumania 11110 a
frightful internal eon001a1o11 are al-
ready nom] 11141-1: Sca..A ronsidera-hle,
German artily and airforce i, 'being
built up in itumania and its fornward
tentacles have already penetrated
Bulgaria with what, we utast suppose,
is the acyuie,encc of the Bulgatrian
1;ncernmen6 Airfield, are 'being
cupicd by •GerInao ,round personnel
numbering than)sands se as to enable
the German air force to 0„11e into
action from 'Bulgaria.
"fluty preparations have 'liven mads
for an. movement of German names
into or (11011411 Bulgaria. :inti per-
haps this southward movement has
already begun.
'1\\'e shall need a :treat ma-, of
hilrpim in 10413 if 110, arc 11l augulent
.tu• tsar effort, in the East and in
the 'Middle East. and we must
('3pect that Herr 'Hitler will do his
utmost to damage 011t' shipping 11(111
pre110nt \nlerican supplies from ent-
ering. England.
''l
"l han•e never underrated thi, dan-
4t1. and I hope you will h01ie1',' ((11'
Alive 1 say that I have confidence in
the Royal .Navy and the ail' force and
that 1 think they mill Ibis ;vide to meet
the tainting dangers, -
le had 1101 doubt that in the end
Britain would outwit the 'worn' the
ingenuity of Germany 1.1n ,lee104'.
"We are far stronger in the air
album the0e islands than when we
heat MT tI,e Nazi attack last Septem-
ber." 110 said.
The army, too, lie added, is vastly
stron,gei'.
-It is not a simple operation to try
to invade an island like !Britain with-
out command of the sea and command
of the air," he said.
After the fall of grance flitter ex-
uecte(1 Britain to surrender. There-
fore, he said, the expected autumn in-
vasion would have been an "improve
toed" atTair,
Now, however, the attempt will ibe
the work of a carefully prepared ar-
my. and Britons should expect any
kind of surprise and terror from ,glid-
er attacks, gas and parachute troop,.
Closing his addre.,. Mr. 4'hurehill
asked Po -hoes what 11110tver he should
give in their name to President Roo-
sevelt—'the thrice cltn,en heal of a
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nation of ,13110:00,000 people.”
"Her is the answer a-11io11 I shall
cite•," lit continued.
"Put your emit-Aenre 1n us; give us
your faith and your blessing; realms•
Ger t'rucidetere aril of the way.
"\V" ,hall not 'ail or falter, ave
shall cot i eake11 or lire. ,
Neither the sodden shock ,31 -battle.
nor the lona;-drama :rail of vigilant-
, will vicar us down. 'Give us,
the tont 1 and we will finish the job."
COMES TO CANADA
Rt. 1101!. Malcolm MacDonald; sen
of the late Priwe Minister Ramsay
MacDonald, aet'oi'ding to announce-
ment last week from London. Eng-
1nnd, has been appointed High Com•
missi0uer to Canada. He will be sue•.
eee(led as Minister of health ha the
Churchill Government by Ernest.
Brown, former Minister of Labor. Rt
Hon, Mr. MacDonald succeeds Sir
Gerald Campbell, who has been
transferred to Washington.
A kindly visitor was one day go-
ing through an insane asylum. Pre-
sently site saw a fellow sitting beside
a flower bed, fishing with his line
chopped among the plants. Thinking
to humor the patient the visitor
asked: "How many have you caught
so far. my poor fellow?"
"You're the ninth today." he said.
Seven German soldiers killed in
the Norwegian campaign sought ad•
mission to Heaven, St. Peter permit
ted only two to enter, shut the gate
ou the other five.
"You've left us out!" protested one
of the tutlttcky cines
"I'm indeed sorry," explained 41
Peter through the gate bars, "but so•
cording to the report of DNB. official
mews agency. there were only two
German casualties today."
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"We may be sure that the war is
soon going to entre a1410a a plias). of
greater violence. Hitler's confederate,
Mussolini, has reeled ha.cic in Albania.
Put the Nazis, having absorbed Hnto-
gary and driven Rumania 11110 a
frightful internal eon001a1o11 are al-
ready nom] 11141-1: Sca..A ronsidera-hle,
German artily and airforce i, 'being
built up in itumania and its fornward
tentacles have already penetrated
Bulgaria with what, we utast suppose,
is the acyuie,encc of the Bulgatrian
1;ncernmen6 Airfield, are 'being
cupicd by •GerInao ,round personnel
numbering than)sands se as to enable
the German air force to 0„11e into
action from 'Bulgaria.
"fluty preparations have 'liven mads
for an. movement of German names
into or (11011411 Bulgaria. :inti per-
haps this southward movement has
already begun.
'1\\'e shall need a :treat ma-, of
hilrpim in 10413 if 110, arc 11l augulent
.tu• tsar effort, in the East and in
the 'Middle East. and we must
('3pect that Herr 'Hitler will do his
utmost to damage 011t' shipping 11(111
pre110nt \nlerican supplies from ent-
ering. England.
''l
"l han•e never underrated thi, dan-
4t1. and I hope you will h01ie1',' ((11'
Alive 1 say that I have confidence in
the Royal .Navy and the ail' force and
that 1 think they mill Ibis ;vide to meet
the tainting dangers, -
le had 1101 doubt that in the end
Britain would outwit the 'worn' the
ingenuity of Germany 1.1n ,lee104'.
"We are far stronger in the air
album the0e islands than when we
heat MT tI,e Nazi attack last Septem-
ber." 110 said.
The army, too, lie added, is vastly
stron,gei'.
-It is not a simple operation to try
to invade an island like !Britain with-
out command of the sea and command
of the air," he said.
After the fall of grance flitter ex-
uecte(1 Britain to surrender. There-
fore, he said, the expected autumn in-
vasion would have been an "improve
toed" atTair,
Now, however, the attempt will ibe
the work of a carefully prepared ar-
my. and Britons should expect any
kind of surprise and terror from ,glid-
er attacks, gas and parachute troop,.
Closing his addre.,. Mr. 4'hurehill
asked Po -hoes what 11110tver he should
give in their name to President Roo-
sevelt—'the thrice cltn,en heal of a
PAGE SEVEN
,DEPENDAPLI
MAGiC gives light,
tender texture
every time/
nation of ,13110:00,000 people.”
"Her is the answer a-11io11 I shall
cite•," lit continued.
"Put your emit-Aenre 1n us; give us
your faith and your blessing; realms•
Ger t'rucidetere aril of the way.
"\V" ,hall not 'ail or falter, ave
shall cot i eake11 or lire. ,
Neither the sodden shock ,31 -battle.
nor the lona;-drama :rail of vigilant-
, will vicar us down. 'Give us,
the tont 1 and we will finish the job."
COMES TO CANADA
Rt. 1101!. Malcolm MacDonald; sen
of the late Priwe Minister Ramsay
MacDonald, aet'oi'ding to announce-
ment last week from London. Eng-
1nnd, has been appointed High Com•
missi0uer to Canada. He will be sue•.
eee(led as Minister of health ha the
Churchill Government by Ernest.
Brown, former Minister of Labor. Rt
Hon, Mr. MacDonald succeeds Sir
Gerald Campbell, who has been
transferred to Washington.
A kindly visitor was one day go-
ing through an insane asylum. Pre-
sently site saw a fellow sitting beside
a flower bed, fishing with his line
chopped among the plants. Thinking
to humor the patient the visitor
asked: "How many have you caught
so far. my poor fellow?"
"You're the ninth today." he said.
Seven German soldiers killed in
the Norwegian campaign sought ad•
mission to Heaven, St. Peter permit
ted only two to enter, shut the gate
ou the other five.
"You've left us out!" protested one
of the tutlttcky cines
"I'm indeed sorry," explained 41
Peter through the gate bars, "but so•
cording to the report of DNB. official
mews agency. there were only two
German casualties today."
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JUST IMAGINE!
A PARADE OF 79,410 CHILDREN
PASSING THROUGH ONE DOORWAY
Just try to visualize over seventy-
five battalions of soldiers passing in
single file ... or think of the popula-
tion of a city bigger than Brantford,
Peterborough and Kingston all com-
bined.
Navy you have a basis for compari-
son because that's the number of
individual visits made by children to
the Out -Patient Department of the
Hospital for Sick Children last year.
This huge total represents the need
of babes and youngsters for medical
treatment , help which could not
be afforded if parents were asked to
pay more than a small part of the
cost. In fact, many parents cannot
afford any payment at all
These little ones need your help.
The revenue from Government and
Municipal grants, plus whatever
parents may contribute, covers part
of the expense, but the balance must
come from charitable citizens.
Please mail a donation today . ,
no matter how small.' The need is
greater than ever before.
The HOSPITAL for SICK CHILDREN
67 COLLEGE STREET, TORONTO