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TWO TO BEAT HITLER
BY
DOROTHY THOMPSON
MR WINSTON CHURCHILL has entered his second year of office as Prime Minis-
ter of Great Britain.
Twelve months ago, with Britain facing the darkest crisis of the war, this great man took control of the coun- try.
He offered "blood, toil, tears and sweat," but by his Indomitable courage and forceful leadership he brought Britain through grim days of defeat and strengthened her to light on for victory.
"He inherited an unholy mess.'
Here in America we have another great leader, Presi- dent Roosevelt, to whom Democracy looks in the fight for face in the crowd: quick, spontaneous, infinitely winning. freedom. Between them these two men will bring Wes- One can be an opponent of Franklin Roosevelt- tern civilisation through its most terrible ordeal.
an opponent time and again, on specific measures. To-day I want to tell you what I know of these great only the most embittered partisan or die-hard can be his
First, my own President Franklin Roosevelt, who has inspired us with the determination to defeat aggres- He has brought the White House down to the indivi-
men.
enemy.
But
sion: second your Premier, Winston Churchill, who leads.
'dual fireside. No American President ever had so many people in the land who felt as though they were his personal Hongkong Telegraph. Britain in her finest hour.
President of the friends. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT,
Roosevelt is a man who, in his personal life, has over- United States, is the man whom Hitler hates and fears more than anyone on earth except Winston Churchill, come disaster, and overcome it utterly. I am convinced that this is the most important thing about By a crazy fluke of Nature, a disease THE prefix "special to the Telegraph" that usually hits only children struck
him. He knows it can be overcome.
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Roosevelt mercilessly, cruelly, disastrously when he was in early manhood.
Never again would he walk without' either wholly or in part without previous each step being an agony, resting on the
HITLER'S PROBLEM
BIGGEST problem confront- ing Hitler in his Eastern Front campaign is the toll it is taking of his oil reserves. The Ger- mans, in fact, are faced with a disastrous situation.
Onc authoritative source calculated that German oil con- sumption in the Russian cam- paign must be at least 300,000 tons a month, on the basis that the oil consuming forces employ- ed by Germany probably consist of some 15 armoured, 20 150 motorised infantry and ordinary infantry divisions, making approximately 6,300 light and heavy tanks in opera- tion together with 72,500 motor vehicles of various kinds and 3,750 motor cycle combinations. The average fuel consumption by tanks is one gallon for every mile and a half, and on the assumption that all tanks operate for about 60 miles a day, the daily total consumption for all véhicles is probably 1,020,000 gallons, or about 100,000 tons per month. Consumption by the Luftwaffe for all purposes is. estimated at 60,000 tons. a month, assuming that the total planes in use is 4,000 and that half of this strength is in the air for three hours a day. Additionally there are the Ger- man naval forces in the Baltic and the Finnish Hungarian and Rumanian armies to
for.
arms of some friend.
Reports during the week allege that the two statesmen have be en conferring secretly somewhere
in the Atlantic.
His face, when last I saw him, wore an unusual gravity. Then someone in the crowd caught his eye, and he smiled.
He knows, too, that the place to over- He come it first is in one's own mind. knows that you overcome it, not by refus- ing to see it, but facing it in its last, blackest reality. Then, when
one has
faced it whole, one can overcome it. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT was the first Demo- cratic head of a State to know beyond peradven-
There are two Roosevelt smiles. There is the almost ture of a doubt that Hitlerism meant war. automatic smile of the man who perhaps attracts attention
He faced that reality: There was going to be à dread-
to his vivid, mobile face, in order to detract attention from ful disaster. And because he faced it, Mr Roosevelt is his stricken body.
going to win this war-Mr Roosevelt and the American But there is another Roosevelt smile, and it was this people-aligned on the side of Great Britain. smile that the pale, chilly man turned on that friend's
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"He knows how to face disasters."
Good Friday afternoon! went to a performance of Handel's Messiah." Later iri the day I mentioned the fact to a youth of 18 or ao, whose com- ment was that the music was "phoney."
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The man who survived the blitzkrieg on himself will be the chief factor in winning this war. That is why Hitler knowa hia end was in sight when Roosevelt was re-elected.
Americans don't know it. Not yet. But Hitler knows it. He is a superstitious man-and he knew his luck had turned.
And, though Americans have confidence in him, they do not know, perhaps, what Roosevelt means to the rest of the civilised world to the British, to all the Norwegians, and Dutch, and French, and Poles.
They think he has a "lucky star." To them he is the great man, the man with the laugh, the man who survived the blitzkrieg of disease and who isn't afraid of Hitler.
EVEN more hated by Hitter is Churchill, but Hitler would have liked him, I think, if he had been a German, Not-in-generations have such words of passionate love and measured indignation fallen from English lips as Churchill ~ut- tered in a series of speeches called "While England Slept."
And while he spoke, while he spoke mostly to unheeding ears, the shadow was lengthening, and finally loomed so tall and menac ing that all the world could see.
And then, when it was over them with all the full darkness
of its horrors and destruction, the people of England lifted Chur-
chili. on their hands, crying: "Speak and fight for us!"
It was very, very late when Churchill took up his last fight
for Britain, He inherited an unholy mess.
Let us tell the truth. He inherited all that the men of little faith, the money-grubbers, the windy pacifists, the ten-to-five bureaucrats had left undone. But he said no word against them. He did not do what you, Hitler, have done to your predeces- sors-hold them up to ridicule and contempt.
Churchill is half a generation older than Hitler, but he took up the fight for the sceptred isle, that precious stone set in a silvered sea; he took up the fight for the world-wide common- wealth of men, held together by the most slender thread of com- mon language and a common way of life-and he fights his last fight, for the way and the speech of men who have never known A master.
Do you speak
language
new
ing up such an attitude would
the
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Slang should not, of course, be ruled out altogether. Slang words and phrases from all na-. tions, add to the colour and the vigour of our speech.
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At the beginning of the war
The danger, however, is that, Germany's oil stocks amounted
with cinemas, to which the ris- to 12,500,000 tons which experts
My objection is that all-con- ing generation awarm, in even considered enough for Bix
Checking homicidal tenden- have about as much chance of quering Hollywood-is defiling the remotest districts, there is months' fighting; but one
a water-beetle at our English tongue and is rul- month after the. Russian cam-cies, I answered that, as a com- success as
ram H.M.S. Rod-ing out all talk that is not of its more than a possibility of, in a few years, the overwhelming own pattern.
mass of the British community paign had started only 7,000,000 poser, the mighty Handel has tempting to
The stubborn his points, and was met with the nev. tons remained.
uniform language Besides, I am not opposed to Not only is Hollywoodese talking Soviet resistance has caused remark, "Aw, nuts!"
Now this young man is about films as such, and in moderation spoken increasingly; it is also which will be more Hollywood German tanks, armoured cars
Still less um I as English as it is possible to enjoy them.
written. Many of our success- than English, and from which and acroplanes to burn twice as much as was anticipated. Addi-be, and is the son of a well- venturing on even the mildest ful novelists use it, and certain all interesting differences of dia-. tionally the Rumanian oil wells known clergyman. It is more criticism of the great American sections of popular journalism lect and pronunciation will have yield has proved disappointing, than doubtful whether he could nation, now bound to us with
thru."
The rustic burr, the broad thanks largely to the constant give a list of the minor Pro- stronger ties than ever before. are soaked with it "thru and vanished.
I like Americans, and my best
We can admire as we do,, the tones of the West Country, the and effective air attacks on phets.
But it is a dead certainty that friend is an American: I have them by the, Russians. Hitler
Lancashire expected them to give him an- he could give a list of the hus- worked and played in Now York Amerlein nullon without bor- Cockney twang-we shall know other four or five million tons hands of Miss Jonn and Miss and have always been happy rowing, its inflexions and its them no more. The accent of a year, but netually the yield Is Constance Bennett (in the cor- there. I like the American modes of speech.
rect order, and that he knows language and, its slick, terse, Further, this gangster slang ("blunt and homely") will be a is no more truly representative thing of the past. Even Miss about half that.
what Miss Ginger Rogers liken idiom.
But this film lingo, which is of America than the slang of Gracie Fields and Mr J. B. for breakfast.
In short, he is a film fan of spreading over England, and is our comedians of the "Ay- Priestley may have to let bah I can imagine worse calami- the most fanatical type: the used with dreadful fluency by thang-you" and "rill mill" type gooms be by-gones.
And what, after all, is the vir- ties. Yet the loss of Individua- band of his brother (and sister) thousands-nay, millions--who is representative of England. enthusiasts in this country is have never-crossed the Atlantic,. enormous and growing hourly. and are never likely to cross it, tuc of it? It it witty? No. Is lity will make the uniformity of is not even the genuine article, it so short and snappy? No. It this, hybrid specch utterly dull, NOW I am launching no attack and I know many Americans takes no longer to say "I'm in just us all uniformity is always
upon eithor films or their who are openly amused by our love with a girl" than to say dull. myriad supporters; ahyone tak- use, or misuse, of it.
The threatening oil situation which confronta the Nazis can still be somewhat relieved by spectacular successes in Russia, but unless theso come quickly, the German armies.face the prospect of being bogged in Russia in the coming winter and eventually all reserves of fuel will be exhausted,
"I'm goofy about a frail."
Yorkshire
and
PHILIP PACE