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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 22, 1940:
CHURCHILL ON COMING CLASH IN MEDITERRANEAN
THE PRIME MINISTER, MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL, REFER- RED TO THE WAR SITUATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS YESTERDAY WHEN HE DECLARED: “THERE ARE TWO WARS GOING ON THERE – THERE IS THE DEFENCE OF EGYPT AND THE CANAL AGAINST GREATLY SUPERIOR NUMBERS OF THE ENEMY.
“This defence some months ago looked a TEACHERS present time we have confidence that we shall AND WAR be able to give a good account of ourselves
rather difficult and doubtful affair. At the
THE MAN WHO DARED" when the invading forces fall upon us.
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"Then there is the violent and sudden striking of the Greek nation who, although taken by surprise, have already almost entire- ly purged their soil of the invaders who have been launched upon them in an enterprise which cannot be described as other than pure unmitigated brigandage.
"We have both theatres to con- sider and I can only say we shall do our best.
"I feel that deeds not words are what are expected from us and I certainly hope we shall be able to which give from our resources,
a
to
are always heavily strained, helpful measure of assistance the Greeks and that we shall be able, to discharge our responsibil- ity to Egypt in defending its soil and in guarding the vital artery of the Suez Canal."
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All For Each Referring to the legislation con- cerning compensation for bombed homes to be passed in the parliamentary session Mr. Chur- chill said: "I feel that all whose homes are not broken up should stand in with a man whose home is smashed.
"Even if the whole of the homes of this country should be levelled we shall still be found all standing together to build them up again after the fighting
is over."
After referring to the vitality of British parliamentary institutions, "Up Mr. Churchill concluded: to the present this war has been waged between fully armed Ger- half many and a quarter or a armed British Empire.
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"We have not done so badly. I look forward with confidence the time when we ourselves shall be as well armed as our antagon- ists.
"I look to the time when the
New World and the British Em-
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SALVATION
ARMY MAY WITHDRAW
F
Butler, Dr. Nicholas Murray President of Columbia University,
has on his desk a request by
ing Prof. Harold C. Urey, Nobel
he "clarify"
members of his faculty, includ- Prize winner in chemistry, that his statement in which he called upon members of his teaching staff to resign vol- untarily if their convictions brought them into
open conflict with Columbia University's stand
on academic freedom and policy
regarding the war in Europe.
The request made on Dr. Butler represented the first public com- ment by Columbia faculty mem- bers and was made public by the Demo- American Committee on cracy and Intellectual Freedom recently. The letter was drafted at an
emergency meeting of Columbia members of the com- mittee on Friday afternoon and was then submitted to a telephone poll of the National Executive Committee, which approved the letter as "an official committee action."
Benjamin Orames, Chief of the Salvation Army in Canada, said in Toronto there is a strong pos- sibility the Salvation Army may The request asked for clarifica- withdraw from some of the tion of Dr. Bulter's statement that European countries now under "university freedom" stands "be- totaltarian domination. He based fore and above academic freedom this statement on a letter from of any kind or sort" as well as Commissioner A. G. Cunningham other parts of his statement. of the Army's International Head- quarters in London.
Signers of the letter in addition to Professor Urey were: Dr. Leslie "This letter tells me that our C. Dunn, head of the Department work is in a critical condition in of Zoology; Dr. Walter Rauten- Japan, in Denmark, Holland and strauch, head of the Department France," he said. “As you will re- of Industrial Engineering; Dr. member, we were compelled to Franz Boas, retired head of the withdraw from Russia in 1922. Department of Anthropology; Dr. Now there is a strong possibilityett 5. Lynd, professor of So- that the Army will have to strike ciology, and Dr. Clyde R Miller, its flag from Estonia and Latvia.” associate professor of education.
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VICHY SEEKING VOLUNTEERS
The French Government has begun the recruiting of a volun- teer army of seven divisions, to which the Nation's armed strength is limited under the armistice. with Germany,
The volunteers will replace conscripts of the classes of 1938 and 1939, who still are under arms. All unmarried. French citizens over 18 years of age who have never been convicted of a crime are eligible to enlist for three years.
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