THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 25, 1941.
"MENACE HAS GOT TO STOP"
Mr. Churchill's Plain, Words On Far East
Moving
Broadcast BOMBER By Premier
IN A DEEPLY MOVING BROADCAST FROM LONDON LAST NIGHT TO THE WORLD, MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL, THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER, UTTERED STIRRING WORDS OF HOPE AND ENCOURAGEMENT FOR THE OPPRESSED PEOPLES OF EUROPE, AND, IN A REFERENCE TO JAPAN, SAID JAPAN- ESE MENACES HAVE “GOT TO STOP.”
Speaking of his historic meeting "some- where in the Atlantic” with President. Roose- velt, the Prime Minister recalled that Britain and America had made a pledge to destroy the Nazi tyranny. "Many practicable arrangements to fulfil that purpose have been and are being organised and set in motion," he declared.
Paying tribute to President Roosevelt's foresight and wisdom, Mr. Churchill said that the President knew why Germany had not yet declared war on the United States, though he had murdered half a dozen countries for less than what the United States had done.
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has never been a methodical, merciless murder on such a scale, Japan Must Be Stopped
only and
And this is but the beginning. Famine and pestilence have yet to follow the bloody path of Hit- ler's tanks. We are in the pre- sence of a crime without a name.
the But Europe is not Continent to be tormented devastated by: aggression.
For five long, years now the Japanese have been seeking to emulate, the style of Hitler and Mussolini and have been invad- ing and harrying the five hun- dred million inhabitants of China. The Japanese armies have been wandering about that land in military operation calling it the China Incident.
"Now they stretch grasping into the Southern Seas, of China: they snatch Indo-China from the wretched Vichy French: they men- ace by their movements Siam. they menace Singapore, the Bri- lish litik with Australia, and they menace the Philippine Islands,
ed States.
"IT IS CERTAIN. THIS HAS
"Our party arrived in the new- est or almost the newest British | *000000000020000000 under the protection of the Unit- battleship, the Prince of Wales,
any self- with a modest escort of Britishyal efforts without and Canadian destroyers,
interest to lead the countries for- GOT TO STOP. and there for three days I spent my ward out of the misery into which they have been plunged and back time iu the company, and, I think I may say, in the comrade. to the broad, high road of freedom ship of Mr. President while all and justice. the time the Chiefs of Staff and naval and military commanders both of the British Empire and the United States sat together in continual conference.
"President thrice chosen head of the most powerful State and community In the world.
Roosevelt is the
"Every effort will be made to secure a peaceful settlement. The United States are labouring with infinite patience to arrive at a fair and amicable settlement which will give Japan the utmost
her for
legitimate
reassurance interests.
"This is the most glorious op. portunity which could ever have come to any branch of the human race.
"We "When one wonders how many
earnestly hope these negotiations will succeed, but currents have flown together to
this I must say, If thess hopes make this harmony eyen the most
should fall we shall range our sceptical person must have a feel.
selves unhesitatingly on. the. ing that we all must have the
side of the United States. "I am the servant of the King duty in this great task the end of quiet bay somewhere in the At-
cholce to play our part and do our
"And thus we come, back to the and Parliament in charge of the which no mortal can foresee.
In these.
lantic where affairs of our country way
sunshine. a' misty "All sorts of horrible things are plays on distressing times, and it is my
happening
great warships which the RANGE OURSELVES UNĶIESI, duty also to make sure that any whole of Europe has been wreck-|Stars and Stripes..
in these days. The
carry the White Ensign and the thing I say or do in the exered and, trampled down by the bar- cise of my office is, approved and sustained by' 'the' whole of the baric weapons of the Nazis,
A Symbol_- "The most deadly instruments British Commonwealth of nations.
which will give Japan the utmost reassurance for her legitimate in- terests. We earnestly hope these negotiations will succeed.
"IF THESE HOPES SHOULD FAIL, WE SHALL, OF COURSE,
"One by one" was Hitler's "sim- ple and grisly plan," which had served so well against the coun- tries of Europe. He was now at- tacking Russia to pave the for an assault on Britain; then he would settle accounts with people of the United States.
TATINGLY AT THE SIDE OF For the first time, asserted Mr.THE UNITED, STATES.” Churchill, in reference to the at- tack on Russia, Nazi blood
Was flowing in a fearful flood. Per- haps a million and a half, perhaps two million
of the Nazi cannon fodder had bitten the dust of the endless plains of Russia,
armaments.
most extreme refinement of
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No Second Versailles
"Therefore, this meeting was of war have been joined for the "We had an idea when we met, Promising that the mistakes of bound to be important because of
the President and I. - the enormous forces at present treachery and the most brutal ex- that without attempting to draw. Versailles would not be repeated, Mr. Churchill said that, instead of only partially mobilised, and be-hibition of ruthlessness to form an up a anal formula of peace aims hoping that there would be
ing further inobilised, which are aggression the like of which has war aims, it was necessary no at the disposal of this human never been known. more war after this. Britain and family of the British Empire and "Our generals who have visit.
to give all people, and especially "The rights and characteristics the peoples of the conquered coun- ed the Russian front line report the United States intended to take the United States who, fortun- of many States and peoples have tries, a symbol of a wartime state- with admiration on the efficiency effective steps to disarm the agately for the benefit of mankind, been laid prostrate and are now ment of the goal towards which of their military organisation and gressor nations, while at the same. speak the same
language, and, ground down under the heel and the British Commonwealth and the excellence of their equip-time protecting themselves with therefore largely think the same, terror of the monsters, Austrians, the United States meant to make ment."
thoughts or a lot of the same Czechs, Poles, Norwegians, Danes, their way, and thus to make way thoughts.
Belgians, Dutch, Greeks, Croats, for others to march with them Serbs, and, above all, the great upon the road which will certainly Good Against Evil.
French nation have been stunned. be painful and maybe long,
"The Hungarians, the Bulgarians "There are two marked distinc- "The meeting was therefore, and the Rumanians have bought a
tions in this declaration from the symbolic. What was ita imshameful respite by carrying the attitude adopted by the Allies' portance? It was shaped in a shackles of the tiger.
during the latter part of the, last; form and manner which every,
war, and no one should overlook one can understand, the deep
them. underlying facts which stirred.
"But their situation is very little and all English-speaking By their movements, the
peoples throughout the world, different from that of his victims. Japanese were menacing Thailand,
"Would it be presumptuous
"SPAIN, SWEDEN AND TUR- Singapore--the British link with
for me to say that it
KEY STAND APPALLED WON- sym- Australia-and the
bolised
DERING Philippine
something.
WILL BE more
WHO' Islands. "It is certain that this
namely, the mar- STRUCK DOWN NEXT. HERE majestic, has got to stop."
the shalling the good forces IS THE VAST RIT INTO WHICH, Every effort, the Prime. Minis-voyage which I made across the of the world against evil forces! ALL THESE GREAT RAGES ter continued, would be made to ocean to meet our great friend, which are now so formidable and HAVE BEEN FLUNG AND FROM
The second difference is this: secure a peaceful settlement. the President of the United States. triumphant and which have cast WHICH, UNAIDED, THEY CAN- instead of trying to ruin German
Speaking of the United States Exactly where....we met is a their cruel spell over Europe and NOT CLIMB OUT.
trade by all sorts of additional begotiations with Japan, he said: secret, but I don't; think I shall a large part of Asia?
"But all this does not expatiate trade barriers and hindrances, as "The United States are labouring be indiscreet if I go so far as to "This is a meeting which mark- Hitler. He made 3 treaty of in 1919, we have adopted the view. with infinite patience to arrive at say that it was somewhere in the led a new chapter in the history of non-aggression with Russia just as that it is in the interest of the fair and amicable settlement Atlantic in a spacious landlocked English-speaking nations and our he has been trying to do with world to see that no nation shall
Instead of trying to ruin Ger- Reference To Japan many economically, German trade would be given a fair chance, since Japan, also, was referred to by it was realised that it would not Mr. Churchill. He declared that, be in the interests of the world to for five long years, the Japanese have a large country shut out from military faction, seeking to emu-international commerce. late the style of Hitler and Mus- Telling the people of the sub- solini, had been wandering about jected countries that help the huge land of China in futile coming, the Prime Minister urged effort.
them to "keep your souls clean from contact with the Nazis- make them feel that they are mor- al outcasts."
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"The United States and Bri; tain do not now. assume, that there will never, be any war again. On the contrary, we mean to take precautions to provent Its renewal by effec tively disarming guilty nations while remaining, suitably, pro....... tecced, ourselves,
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Turkey in order to keep them be shut out from the means quiet until he was ready to at-making a decent living for itself. tack her with the object of de-and. its..people by its industries stroying Russia.
and enterprise.. "Lot Russia be blotted out- -"These are far-reaching let Russia be destroyed. Accor- changes of principle upon which dingly, from the Arctic Ocean to all countries should ponderos the Black Sea were 7,000,000 sol- Above all, it is necessary. diers massed in a mortal struggle. to give hope of final vici
But this time. It wap, not going tory to those men and to be so easy. This time he women who are battling for life: was not going, to have, his own and freedom, or who are bent-' way. May
down under the Nazi yoke, M "The Russian people have ralli- "Hitler and his confederates ed to the defence of their home. have been adjuring, beseeching For the first time Nazi blood has the populations whom they have down in a great food and cer- wronged and injured to bow to tainly one and a half million Ger- their fate by resigning themselves, man troops, and, perhaps, two to servitude. Collaboration-that millions, have bitten the dust of is what it is called in the new Russia.
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"The Russians are fighting with magnificence, and devotion. Not only that, but our generals who have visited the Russian, front line report on their splendid or- garisation and equipment. “
This is only, the rule of the maator race who are try Ing to put an end to Demos. cracy aff the fundamental:free- dom of men and women, and to give them in exchange the iron. The aggressor is surprised; rule of Prussia and the striate.. startled and staggered. For the diccipline of the political police first time in his oxperience mass and the German concentration, murden has become uncomfortable camp. That to the new ordany As his armies » advance--¿cores of thousands of executions in cold Atlantic Messagord blood are being perpetrated by: the Gorman polite and troops Napoleon in his glory, and gen upon the Russians patriots who lius also tried to stretch hiss Fang, are defending their soil. There (Continued on Pago