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·THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 8, 1941.
Let The Tempest Rage, Let It Roar WE SHALL COME THROUGH, SAYS
THE PREMIER Inspiring Fighting Speech In House
"IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE TO DILATE AT LENGTH UPON THE SAD AND SQUALID TALE OF What is goING ON IN VICHY BUT I REALLY DO NOT THINK WE WOULD PROFIT OURSELVES WELL IF WE TARRIED LONG ON THAT PAINFUL SPECTACLE," SAID MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL, REPLYING YESTERDAY TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS DEBATE ON GOVERNMENT'S PROSECUTION OF THE WAR.
MR. Churchill thanked Mr. Lloyd George for the great restraint with which he spoke about "a country whose relations are so high ly valued by us and whose part to play in this great world conflict is of the greatest import-
(Cheers). ance."
Mr. Churchill continued: "There are two
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points on which I can relieve his feelings and anxieties about Tur- key."
war
The first was about the vessels which took Greek islands and carried German troops through the Dardanelles. The Turks had no right to stop them. Mr. Churchill then read the Article of the Convention dealing with the Straits and added. with referehte to
even
Ings. Ifatter myself that high | Prime Minister of New Zealand hopes are entertained' that all will so nobly declared, that if we had Tibt go well with His Majesty's again to tread that path, present advisers at the
present with the knowledge we possess the to-day, I for one would do same thing again. (Cheers).
time.
"The only way in which these doubts can be removed, or these expectations discouraged, is by a full debate followed by a division. "Government is entitled to ask that such a vote shall express it- self in unmistakable terms.
"I should be the last to reject
criticism even unfair
or fair criticism, which 10
much more searching. but there k'nd of criticism which is little irritating.
"But, after all, military by operations must be judged the success which attends upon them rather than the sentiments which inspire them, though these may play their part In the verdict of history and in the survival of races.
"It remains to be seen whether is a the Italian dietitor, by invading a Greece, and the German dicta- tor, in coming to his rescue and involving Greece and Yugoslavia in a bloody welter, in tact have gained an advantage or suffered a loss when the full story of this war is complete, even from the military viewpoint.
Switch From Hedge
"When a bystander sees a horse team dragging a heavy waggon uphill and ruts a switch from a hedge and belabours them, he may well be animated by a benevolent purpose and beneft may result from his efforts to get the waggon to the top.
No Source Of Strength
"But it would be a pity if this debate consisted wholly of critical condemnatory speeches
impression to important and in- observers, who are not well acquainted with our parliamentary or political affairs. Therefore I ask for a vote of con- fidence. (Cheers).
"This is a free Parliament and; a free
country. We have ceeded in maintaining under un- precedented difficulties and dan.. gers, which in
some cases might be mortal, the whole process and i
because it would give a distorted have to be
or intrigue, may by no terested foreign
suc-
"In addition to the whole Bal- kan people, a number of ancient and independent states which have fallen under the Nazi yoke and held down by brute
means prove a source of strength to the German army.
"This vast
machine is now to the the Arotic spread from Aegean and from the Atlantic That la no to the Black Sea. source of strength. the political aspect nothing
"Turning from the military to
more surely debar the Germans from establishing and shaping a
cun
merchantmen, "I believe one of reality of Parliamentary institu-new Europe, and one will surely
tions. (Cheers).
could
Honour Clear
emerge, than the fact that the German army and the German
race have become and are becom- ing more universally and intense-
than any
any
them might have been used in the occupation of an island but there
Vessels in were other possession of the Germana and "I am proud of this. It is one ly hated among the peoples of all Italians which
aqually of the things we are fighting for lands
energy or have been used for that I cannot believe any man would race.
bear the kind of burden which purpose. "This is a question of inter-falls upon Government to-day pretation of the treaty and is a unless he were sustained by the strong and convinced support of matter for Turkey."
the Commons and the nation.
Not Helpful
to
a
Mr. Churchill referred remark by Mr. Lloyd George about the agreement between Turkey and Iraq, and said Mr. Lloyd George was referring to Iran.
"The only relief I feel is that everything in human power was done by us and that our honour as a nation is clear.
The Record
"History bears the records. (Cheers). Some have compared Hitler's conquests with Napo- leon's. It may be Spain and Rus- sia will shortly furnish a new chapter to that theme.
"MR. "HORE-BELISHA AND "IT MUST BE REMEMBERED SOME OTHERS HAVE SPOKEN❘ HOWEVER, THAT NAPOLEON'S evidently OF THE IMPORTANCE IN WAR ARMIES CARRIED WITH THEM-
OF FULL AND ACCURATE | THE FIERCE, LIBERATING. "I am happy to be
able to INTELLIGÉNČE OF THE EQUALITARIAN WINDS OF telleve Mr. Lloyd George's ENEMY'S MOVEMENTS AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, · anxiety. It appears that the INTENTIONS.. THAT IS ONE WHEREAS HITLER'S EMPIRE arrangement is between Turkey OF THE GLIMPSES OF THE HAS NOTHING BEHIND IT BUT and Persia and relates to measures OBVIOUS IN WHICH HIS RACIAL to strengthen the Turco-Persian SPEECH ABOÙNDED. border, which we knew all about and which was prepared for some time and now is to be put into force as from April, 1941.
"I do not think Mc. Lloyd George's speech is particularly helpful in a periód - of what ho himself has called discourage- ment and disheartenment.
"As far as the German invasion | of the Balkans is concerned, we had long and ample forewarning of what was in prospect.
Warned Of Perils
SELF-ASSERTION, ESPIONAGE, › PILEAGE, COR- RUPTION AND THE PRUSSIAN BOOT.
"Napoleon's flashed away, so I derive confidence that the will power of the British nation, expressing itself through the stern, "Our diplomacy has never steadfast and unyielding House of ceased for a moment to apprise Commons, will once again perform perils coming its liberating functions and hum- countries of the
urge common bly execute its · high purpose on them and to
which alone could among men. action by
vast
**Might Of U\S.
"I say this with more confidence
"It is not the sort of speech one would have expected from the Great War leader of former days who was accustomed to security and safety be attained.
"For weeks' we watched "the brush aside despondency and push onward to the distant goal, remorseless movements of
"IT 15 A SPEECH WITH German forces through Hungary, WHICH THINK THE ILLUS- Rumania and Bulgaria towards because we are no longer a small at least 40, island lost in the northern 'ntists TRIOUS MARSHAL PETAIN Yugoslavia, until MIGHT WELL HAVE ENLIVEN divisions, including five armoured but around us gather in broad the array all the nations of the Bri- ED THE DAYS OF REYNAUD'S divisions, were massed on
tish Empire. CABINET. (LAUGHTER).
"I am grateful to him for one note he struck, namely that he made it clear we should close our debate by a vote of confidence.
scene.
"Hiller has told us it was crime in such circumstances
a
for
"Now, from across the Atlantic, the might of the United
States
us to go to the aid of the Greeks, Republic proclaims itself on our
"I don't want to enter side or at our side, or at any rate,_. Into arguments with experts near our side. (Laughter) but this is the kind of crime of which he is a good judge. (Laughter),
Vote Of Confidence "Because of the kind of speech we have heard from him I think It was very
the natural that Government was right to put House would not be entirely satis- down a vote of confidence, be-fed with the recent turn of things cause after our reverses and dis- in the Middle East and that some appointments in the field they members should be acutely dis- have a right to know where they appointed we had not been able to stand with the Commons and defend Greece successfully against where the Commons stands with the Italian and German armies or the country,
that we should have been unable "It is still more important for to keep or extend our 'cónquèŝts the sake of foreign nations, in Libya..DAD ADNA especially nations balancing their policy at the present time and "who should be 'left-in; no
"For myself, I watched the fate of Greece after her vallant ropulse of the Italian Invader with agony.
"I do not to-day discuss the large and complicated questions of munitions or food. Probably In secret session the Minister of Supply will maketa fatatémant to the House.
"THERE IS ONE A SIMPLE POINT ABOUT TANKS, WHICH MR. HORE-BELISHA IN HIS SPEECH "MIGHT HAVE MEN- TIONED, FOR HE WAS HEAD OF THE WAR OFFICE IN THE YEARS PRECEDING THE WAR. "In the last war, tanks were built to go three or four miles an hour and stand up to rifle or machine-gun bullets. In the inter- val, mechanical solence advanced
doubt about the stability of "The only relief I feel is that Bo much that it is possible to make
resolved and obstinate War Government.
Hitler Profited
tanks to go up to 25 miles an everything in-human power was hour and stand up to cannon fire. “IT IS ESSENTIAL, CON- done by us and that our honour as SIDERING THE TREMENDOUS a nation is clear. ISSUES AT STAKE, AND REAL-- "If anything could add a pang LY NOT TO EXAGGERATE to these emotions it would be the "It is a particular revolution THE FRIGHTFUL RISKS WE knowledge we had of the impend by which Hitler has profited. It ARE ALL GOING TO RUN AND ing outrage with so little power was well known in military and WHICH ARE BEING RUN, THAT to avert from this heroic and fam- technical circles for years before WE SHOULD HAVE CERTITUDE ous people a fate so hideous and the war UPON THESE MATTERS.
The Only Way
| undeserved."British Wireless,
The Same Path
In enemycoun es there is the "Looking back upon the course liveliest interest in our proceed- of events i can only feel, as the
Edid not Papringts from. German but from British Ideas and others like "General" do Gaulfatham:blan exploited
(Continued on Paga 3.),