MR. ALFRED DUFF-COOPER BROADCASTS:
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 22, 1940.
No Cause For Serious Alarm;
Still
Less For
GERMANS DRIVE
FOR THE CHANNEL
PORTS
LONDON, TO-DAY.
“THE NEWS IS GRAVE, BUT THERE IS NO CAUSE
FOR SERIOUS ALARM, STILL LESS FOR PANIC," DECLARED MR. DUFF-COOPER IN A NATION- WIDE BROADCAST LAST NIGHT.
By the successful employment of a new technique, he said, small bodies of the German Army have succeeded in penetrating for great distances. "But they are small bodies. The army of Britain and the far greater army of France are still there. They are neither in retreat nor have they suffered heavy loss.
SWEDISH
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Panic
Stockholm, To-day. Sweden is protesting to Ger- many about an Incident on Tues- day night.
A German seaplane came over Swedish territory east of Narvik, opened fire at a railway station and killed one man-Reuter.
people what I had been told, and it was not until I came to read the actual account that I found he had said something quite different. "His message was one of supreme confidence; he firmly announced his faith that nothing could defeat the united forces of the French Republic and the British Empire, and added that if to-morrow or at some future date any faint-hearted person were to come nothing but a miracle could save France, then he would feel confident that a miracle would be performed because he had faith in the salvation of France.
"I think these grave events will
It is impossible to under-ed, and out of these spare stand what is happening scraps of news imagination is while the battle is still in pro- inclined to build vast struc-to him and say that gress. We hear that one van-tures of conjecture. tage point has been gained, Three facts alone can be another lost, another regain- definitely stated. They are:
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First, the present objec-act, indeed they have already acted, tive of the enemy is the chan- nel ports, from which he hopes to launch a war upon noon was a very different assembly this island.
"find wherever I go. calm spirit of inflexible determination. "The House of Commons this after-
from what it was before Whitsun.
One Sentiment
"It reminded me of the words of Macaulay "Then none was for a
U.S. ON HOUR OF GREAT TRIAL
New York, To-day.
The "New York Times” comments: "Germany is try- ing to divide France from Britain physically as German diplomacy has previously sought to separate the two Allies spiritually.
Of one thing we may be certain, the alliance between France and Britain is unbreakable.
Both peoples have stubborn loyalty; both have a courage which is never more magnificently displayed than in the hour of great trial; both are clear- eyed enough to see that they would be the next inevitable victim of German fury if either of them could be isolat→ ed then defeated through the ability of the German army to throw its full strength in one direction or the other.
“In union, too solid to be broken either by terror of total war or offer of treacherous peace, both nations bat- tle for democracy, and freedom.” Reuter.
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London, To-day.
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danger is so great and so close."
Secondly, small parts of his mechanised troops have suç- ceeded in eluding their op- ponents, in advancing great party, then all were for the State." distances and in coming near "Our old party differences, which to their objective.
have often been so bitter in the armies of had been laid aside as playthings for past and may be so in the future, Thirdly, the France and Britain ́are un-which we had no longer any use.
"Something of so much greater im- "In enormously superior was only one sentiment in the mind hind their steady lines there exists a
portance had taken their place. There numbers they occupy the of all-a united Commons, united as vast reserve of calm and faithfully battlefield and the counter-perhaps it had never been, -for-the-united_people."--Reuter.---
defeated.
attack, when it comes, should prove formidable.
"The swaying fortunes of the fight matter little..
"It is the end of the battle that counts and as I told you last week, the end of this battle, whatever it may be, cannot entail the defeat of Great Bri- tain and France in the war.
The Old Story
"Meanwhile, it is the old story which has been told again and again and which nevertheless, always comes as a surprise to everyonė.
"Sudden
advance, unexpected weight of attack, initial gains far grea- ter than were expected-it is the story of August, 1914 and of March, 1918, and let us hope it will find the same ending.
"Meanwhile it is for each one of us to play our part. The battle is being brought close to our shores, and each and every one of us is taking part in it. Therefore we are all soldiers and as such must acquit ourselves.
"The first quality of a soldier le courage, a quality In which I am confident we shall not be found. lacking.
Danger Of Rumour "Let me repeat to you the warning against, the danger of rumour. 1 ex-
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"I was told by a perfectly reliable and truthful reporter that the Premier of France had said nothing But a miracle could save his country.
"I could hardly bolleve that such stalwart lighter as Reynaud had, said anything of the sort but 1 am afraid "I repeated to adveral other
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Mr. Duff-Cooper concluded: We here behind the line must play our part as worthily as those who are keeping watch to-night in the front line or those awn to-morrow.
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