THE CHINA MAIL OCTOBER 2, 1839.
THE WAR WILL END---
When Hitler Has Had Enough By Allied Standards
VIGOROUS CHURCHILL
REPLY TO THE NEW NAZI "PEACE OFFENSIVE"
London, To-day.
MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL, the First Lord of the Admiralty, in a broad- cast to the nation last night, made a vigorous reply to Hitler's peace offensive.
Mr. Churchill said that although the war had begun when Hitler wanted it to, it would only end when we were sure he had had enough.
Our reluctance to fight, said Mr. Churchill, had been mock- ed at as cowardice. Now the war was begun, it was begun, and with the help of God we were going on to the end.
Final victory would depend on how long Hitler and the men around him, their hands stained with blood and sticky with corruption, could control Germany.
Summing-up the results of the first month of the
Mr. war,
Winston Churchill said that Poland had been over-run, but would rise again; Russla had warned Hitler off his Eastern dream; and the U-boats might be safely left to the care and constant attention of the British Navy.
SOUL INDESTRUCTIBLE
Dealing at the outset with "Poland, Mr. Churchill said that that country had again been overrun by two great Powers which had held her in bon-
dage for 150 years but were unable to conquer the spirit of the nation.
Polish
The heroic defence of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is rise indestructible and she will again like a rock which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave but which remains a rock.
Russia had pursued a policy of self-interest. We could have wished that the Russian Armies should be standing on their present line as friends and allies of Poland, instead of invaders, but that the Russian, ar- mies should stand on this line was clearly necessary for the safety of Russia against the Nazi 'menace.
LINE IS THERE
At any rate, the line is there and
been an Eastern front has
created which Nazi Germany does not dare to assail.
When von Ribbentrop was sum- moned to Moscow last week, it was to learn and accept the fact that Nazi designs upon the Baltic states and the Ukraine must come to a stop.
action of wrapped in
"None of these thres Powers can afford to ses Rumania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and, above all, Turkey put under the German hell.
"Through the fog of confusion and uncertainty we may discern plainly
interests the community of
which
exist between England, France and Russia to prevent the Nazis carrying the flames of war into the Balkans and Turkey.
"Thus, at some risk of being proved wrong by events, 1 will proclaim to-night my conviction that the second great fact of the first month of the war is that
Hitler and all that Hitler stands for have been and are being warned off south-east Europe.
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U-BOAT CAMPAIGN
"The third event is that the U-boat attack on the life of the British Isles has hitherto not proved successful.
"It is true that when they sprang on us and we were going on our or- dinary business with 2,000 ships on the seas they managed to do serious damage, but the Navy immediately attacked the U-boats and is hunting them night and day with zeal, and not altogether without relish!
"It looks very much as if the U-boats were feeling the weather! A week has passed since a British ship alone or in convoy has been aunk or evan molested on the high seas by ́à U-boat and during. the month we captured by Con- traband Control 150,000 tons more German merchandise for our own benefit that we lost by ́all the U-boat sinkings put' ogether!
"Every day we are attacking U-boats. Some of them now prefer to go and sink unprotected neutral ships of Norway and Sweden.
ALL NATIONS
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"I cannot forecast the Russia; it is a riddle
"I hope the day will come when the mystery inside an enigma, but per- 'Admiralty will be able to invite the haps there is a key!
ships of all nations to Join the Bri- "That key is Russian national in-tish convoys and insure them upon
terest.
"It cannot be in accordance with the interest or safety of Russia that Ger- many should plant itself on the shores of the Black Sea or over-run the Baltic States and subjugate the Slavo- nic peoples of south-eastern Europe.
SAME CHANNELS
5“That would be contrary to the historie te-nterests of Russia; but here these interests of Russia fall into the same channel as the Interests of] Britain and. France,
voyages at a reasonable rate.
"We must expect that the U-boat attack on the sea-borne commerce of the world will be renewed presently on a greater acale, We hope, however, by the end of October we shall have 'thrice the hunting-craft working ns. we had at the beginning of the war.
"We hope that "our means of putting down this past will grow continually and that the U-boats may safely be left to the care and constant attention of the British Navy."!
GETTING INTO STRIDE
Referring to what was happening in Britain, Mr. Churchill sympathised with those who wished to throw them- selves into the flight but for whom full
scope had not yet been found. we get into our stride.
He said that all this would clear as
The British 'Government was unitedly resolved to make the maximum effort of which the nation was capable and to per- severe whatever may happen un- til the decisive victory was gained.
"Patriotic 'men and women
must not only rise above fear but above inconvenience and boredom. Parlia- ment will be kept in session and all grievances, muddles and scandals can be freely ventilated there.
MR. CHURCHILL
now we have begun and with the help of God and the conviction that we are the defenders of civilization
and. freedom we are going on to the end,
HOW DIFFERENT THE SCENE
"Britain and France' are together 85,000,000 in the Homelands alone.
"Nazidom controls no more, includ- 16,000,000 newly - conquered Czechs, Slovakans and Austrians held down by force.
"In the past, the House of Commons
instrument of na-ing proved an has tional will capable of waging stern wars. Parliament is the shield and expression of Democracy, and the Ministers base themselves upon the Parliamentary system.
STOLID RESOLVE
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from
"We have the ardent support of 20,000,000 British citizens in the self- the governing Dominions. We have heart and moral convictions of India on our side.
"We believe that we are entitled to "The power of Parliament was the respect and good-will of the world, manifested last week when a gigan-particularly the United States, tic budget, which would have in- "How different is the scene furiated everybody a year ago, had October, 1914! Then the French front, been accepted with prompt and despite British assistance, sadmed stolid resolve.
about to break; Russia had been laid low at Tannenberg; the whole of Aus- tria and Hungary was in battle against ue; the brave Turks were about to join our enemies; and we had to ba ready night and day to fight a deci- alve sea battle with the German fleet.
"A large army has already gone to France, and British armies on the scale of the Great War are preparing, "The British people are determined to stand in line with the splendid army of the French Republic and share as fast and as early as we can whatever may be coming to both.
formidable
ITALY'S POSITION ITALY'S
"There may be great ordeals com- ing from the air. We shall do our "In those days, also, Italy, was neu- best to give a good account of our tral, but we did not know the reason. selves and always remember that It was only later that we learned that, the command of the seas will enable by a secret clause in the Triple AI- us to bring the immense resources|liance, Italy had expressly reserved to of Canada and the Now World into herself the right to stand aside from play as a decisive air factor beyond | any war which brought her into con- the reach of what we have to give flict with Britain.
then; and take over here.
"Much has happened since misunderstandings and disputes have arisen, but all the more do we appre- clate in England the reasons why this with great friendly nation of Italy, whom we have never been at war, has not seen fit to enter the struggle.
WHAT LIES BEFORE
GERMAN PEOPLE
"The Government has given direc- tions to prepare for war for
three years. That does not mean that vic- tory may not be gained in a short time.
"How soon it is gained depends on of. how long Hitler and his group
"I don't under-rate what lies before wicked men, whose hands are stained
have with blood and sticky with corrup-us, but I cannot doubt that we tlon, can keep their grip upon the the strength to carry the good cause forward and break down the barriers docile and unhappy German people.
which stand between the wage-earn- "It was for Hitler to say when waring masses of every land and a free would begin but it is not for him or and more abundant daily life.” his successors say when it will end.
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Referring to the civil war of the
It began when he wanted, and willUnited States, Mr. Churchill said that only, and when we are convinced all the heroism of the South could not that he has had enough.
redeem the cause and stain of slavery, so German courage and skill 'would of "The Prime Minister stated our own not free them from the reproach war alms in terms which cannot be Nazl-ism with its intolerance and bettered or too often repeated-to re-brutality. deem Europe from the perpetual and recurring fear of German aggression and to enable the peoples of Europe to preserve their independence and li- bertles. A
He concluded by quoting the Vic- torian orator. John Bright:
"At the last, after the smoke of the battlefield has cleared away, 'the hor- "We have been told we are the ef- rid shape which had cast. a shadow. fete democracles and our reluctance to ever the whole continent had vanlah- fight was mocked as cowardice. But ed and was gone for ever."-Reuter,