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CHURCHILL ANSWERS TEXT OF SPEECH

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appointments in the field they have the right to know where they stand with the Commons and where the Commons stands with the country.

No Exaggeration

support of the Commons and the nation.

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am

HIS

CRITICS:

TO COMMONS

"the # when your enemy has five or six

Huns

Stated as an

Menzies

Inspires

Canada

brake put on the wheel but to get lukes in war is very unreul and

foolish... more impetus and force behind it. "The only relief I feel is that "In the business of Libya und "It has yet to be seen how the everything in human power was done Greece no violence has been done to forces that have advanced will fare opinion. All de-in heavy fighting with all the lazarus by us and that our honour as a expert military nation is clear. Mr Hore-Belisha cisions have been unitedly and purely which still lie before them at no

distance. and some others have spoken of the voluntarily in goodwill under

I personally as importance in war of full and ac-pressure of events. eurate intelligence of the enemy's "It is still more important for the movements and intenflons. That is of the Government obviously time the army that you have,}

nasumed

the most when he is more adequately equip responsibility in

form. It follows that

That | ped and much stronger in the air sale of foreign nations, especially one of the glimpses of the obvious indirect personhose head may be cut off and in tanks, and when he lies in natlong balancing their polley at the which his speech abounded.

OTTAWA, May 7 (Router).---- If we do not win the war-and I am the centre of the war scene and can Balkans Warnings left present time, and who should be

very ready that this should be so strike out in one, two or three direc- in no doubt about the stability of this resolved and obstinate war govern- "As far as the German Invasion of and that because members of the tions simultaneously out of choice "We shall win the war. I do not ment. It t is essential, considering the the Balkans was concerned, we hnd House' would probably experience an of seven or eight, it is evident that say that in any easy optimism tremendous Issues at

stakand for long, an ample fore-warning of even more unpleasant fete at the your problem becomes rather dimeuit. but with supreme confidence,"

Regarding frag

said Mr R. G. Menzies In a speech really, we ought not to exaggerate what was in prospect. Our diplomacy hands of the triumphant

"It is not possible to avoid repeated at Canadian Club luncheon after the frightful risks we are all going to has never ccused for a movement to (Laughter),

Middle East

rebuffs and misfortunes and these we his arrival from New York in a run and which are being run-we apprise the countries of the perils

Air these coming on them and to urge com should have certitudo

Royal

Force upon

"There is a tendency in some shall very likely have to go through could matters. In enemy countries there is mon ellon by which alone

quarters, especially abroad, to talk for quite a long time. Our Intel- Canadian the livellest interest in our proceed-security safely be attained.

re-about the Middle East as if we could ligence Service was thought to be the bomber.

He added: "We Britler have the "For weeks we watched the ings. I datter myself that high hopes are entertained that all will not go muracies movements of vast German afford to lose our position there and best in the world during the last war

Rumanin yet carry on the war to victory on and it is certainly not the worst in will, the mer. and the spirit. All we

world to-day. the

need is for the world to give us Hungary, well with Ilin Majesty's present ad- forces through

long

Our causo is the cause of and Bulgarla towards Yugo-Slavia oceans and in the air.

as last May the machines. ago visers at the present time.

to these unill at least 40 divisions, including academic strategle fact that may be Foreign Office began asic for the United States and of all civilised "The only way in which

It is the cause of cominon true, but do not let anyone were mussed or these five armoured divisions doubls can be removed

of lines

Communications. But all the man. expectations discouraged is by a full on the scene. Hitler has told us that rate the gravity of the issues being troops to be sent to Iraq to guard our people.

"The saddest thing I have over seen gol had to go to the crime in such circumstances fought for in the Nile valley. debate followed by a division. The was

was the people of Britain being led "The less of the Nile valley and the troops we Government is entitled to ask that for us to go to the aid of the Greeks.

"In default of troops it was difficult from blazing streets: the sight of Ruch a vole shall express itself in I don't want to enter into atgiments Suez Canal, of our position in the Nile Valley,

with experts (Laughter) but this is Mediterranean and of Malta would to make headway against the pro- them hurrying to work next morning unmistakable terms.

not the kind of crime of which he is be among the heaviest blows

Fight For Peace a good judge (Laughter).

could sustain. We are determined Axis intrigues of Buschid All whose was the happiest

The re-object obviously was to have every- to Oght for them with all

"These people are not going to ask sources of the British Empire and we thing ready for the Germans us soon

to plan. Therefore the ill-informed it." successful.

thful British Government slothful and

The Governor-General, the Earl have every reason to believe that we to they could reach Iraq accordinit for peace-they are going to fight for

"General Wavell has under his

actually forestalled this plot, Strong of Athlone, and the Prime Minister orders ot present nearly half million men. A continuous flow of British forcen landed and assumed of Canada, Mr W. L. Mackenzie King, equipment has been in progress, control of the highly important, attended the luncheon.

Mr Menzies later attended a meet- from this country during the last ten bridgehead. In the cast-Basia for months, and now that Italian resist- which we shall doubtless have tour of the House of Commons and ance in Abyssinlo, Africa and the gh hard and long. Ruschld Ali was was given a seat on the floor of the

led into more violent courses. For House, the first time that a steady! Somalilands is collapsing, a

the last about the position there.

WAY. Members gave him a concentration northwards of all these several days we were very anxious member was given the honour since forces is possible,

rousing applause. Successful Raid Desert Warfare

Mr Menzies also attended a meet- the "Yesterday "Indeed it has been for many

He is expected to address the Com- mans at a later date.

Irritating Criticism

I should be the last to reject even unfair criticism ur fale critickm which is so much more searching, bul

there is a kind of criticisin which is

a. little irritating.

Unregretted Act

"Looking back upon the course of events, i cm only feet, as the Prime Minister of New Zealand to nobly "When a bystander sees a team of declared, that if we had again to tread with the knowledge horses dragging a heavy woggon up that path even

for one htli and cuts a switch from the hedge that we possess to-day, I

do the some thing again and belabours them, he may well be would

after

military animated by benevolent purpose and (Cheers). But bentht may result from his efforts to operations must be judged by get the warzon more quickly in the success which attends them rather top, But it would be a pity if this than the sentiments which inspire their them, though these may play lly of critical parts debate consisted wholly

parts in the verdlet of history and in condemnatory

Speeches because t

the survival of races, would give a distorted impression to It remains to be seen whether the

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Lloyd George Speaks In Debate

everyone

important interested foreign obser- valian Dictator in invading Greece, weeks rapidly proceeding, and Gen/Hubbanlynh sailled out and coming of the War Cabinet. vers who are not well acquainted and the German Dictator in coming eral Smuts has ordered the splendly pletely routed the besiegers and put to fight. Twenty-six Iraqi officers and 408 men were taken with our Parlamentary or political to his rescue and involving Greece South African Army (cheers) for- affairs. Therefore, I ask for a vote, and Yugo-Slavia in a bloody welter, ward to the Mediterranean shore.

But the warfare of the Western prisoners and total enemy casuallles

were estimated nt of confidence. (Cheers),

1.000. In fact have gained an advantage of suffered a loss when the full story is Desert or of any of the deserts which were

"Possibly the Germans will arrive can only be con-before we have crushed the revolt, surround military complete, even from

tively small num-in which case our task will become i This is a free Parliament and a viewpoint.

dueled by country. We have succeeded in free

equipped troops.

more difficult. Possibly the revolt Employment in the desert of large went off half cock.

Spotter Plane Downed LONDON, May 7 (Reuter).-. maintaining under unprecedented

+The addition of the whole Balkanumbers may only lead to disaster. "We intend to ossist the Iraqis to LONDON, May 7 (Reuter). The resumption of the debate on difficulties dangers which in some cases might be mortal, the whole people to the which have fallen That is what happened to the Italians, get rid of Raschid All and his mili- The Dover area to-night was a vote of confidence was opened soll tury, process and reality of Parliamentary untier the Nazi yoke and have to be 180,000 men lay along African

at the

rocked by a brief but vicious by Mr Lloyd. George with a institutions (Cheers). I am proud of it. It is one of the things we are held down by brute force or intrigue and once the head of these forces was

"I have never promised anything burst of shelling by German spirited speech. He said that fighting for. I cannot believe that may by no means prove a source of chopped off it was not physically posible

strength to

the

but blood, tears, foil and sweat, to long-range guns mounted on the with the first part of the resolu- German army. This possible for them to retreat.

The same thing. with important

tion (expressing confidence in any mun could bear the kind of vast machine is now spread from the

mistakes, burden which falls upon the Govern-| Arctic to the Aegean und from the modifications,, might well have hop-/which I will add our full share of French coust.

shortcomings asd disap-

Government) The bombardment began in the the ment to-day unless he were sustained Atlantie to the Black Sea. That is opened to us when German armoured pointments and also that this may go bright light of the setting sun with agreed, but there were parts of forces defeated and largely destroyed on for a very long time and at the by and strongly convinced of the source of strength.

several the Government's war adminis- tration on which there was dis- satisfaction and disappointment. Mr Lloyd George asked why Mr Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, withheld the fact that Turkey allowed German ships to pass through the Bosphorous into the Dardanelles to seize an island.

Appealing for more information, dwell on-the

Mr Lloyd George sold: "We are not surprise the House, ing the damaged ships and accelerat-believed to have crashed in Mid-

an infantile nation to withhold un- quests with Napoicon's. muy

"The German armoured force was ing the turning-round of our ships Channel.

facts from. This notion has that Spain and Russia will shortly not much larger than our own.

pleasant in ports.

Dover Casualties

faced far too many crises and defeats furnish a new chapter to that theme.

We have made great progress in Technical mistakes and mischances

LONDON, May 7 (UP) Two in the past to be frightened by any- It must be remembered, however, occurred. With very little fighting all these spheres but there is much

women were killed and 12 people in- , that Napoleon's armies carried with our armoured forces became disorder- more to do. With the continued flow

the present." liberating and

The other troops we had in of assistance already given us by te jured in the shelling of the Dover thing that has happened, even up to Mr Lloyd George thanked God for of the French

Benglinzi to Revolution whereas Hitler's Empire Begin only mounted cat, gained United States, we can probably main chatting on the street when a shell Colonci Slimson's speech which show-

A burst alongside them.

naval ed has nothing behind it but racial self- Tobruks unmolested, and with re-during 1941. For 1842 we must look officer was seriously injured and his gravity of the position, but it that Americans realised assertion, espionage, pillage, corrupInforcements stands there at bay lo

the Immense construction of car set afire.

exaggerate most important "not to tion and the Prussian boot.

merchantmen in the United States.

what you are going to get, or rather received

of the an assurance

how quickly you are going to get it." America's Task

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TO-MORROW

THE

and

shaping

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the province of Cirenalen.

At El Agheila

victory (Cheers).

Battle of Atlantic "I have an account of what happen- "It Is a mistake to say

that

ed t el Agheila. The Generals were Battle of the Atlantic is won.

salvocs ak intervals of minutes. The shell-fire warning was sounded. Cinemas were emptied of audiences, who ran for cover.

One shell-burst turned over a car the which caught fire. Our

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a new Europe, and one will certainly emerge, than the fact that the German army and

altogether. the German race have become and are taken prisoner by inking undue risks test is the number of tons of imports in lured ple were killed and 12 whilst taking the loyalty of Turkey

Anti-aircraft guns becoming mure universally and in in personal movements. Events are brought in. At present we are main- tensely hated among the peoples of moving so fast, and people have staining the rate of traffic with heavy. Messerschmitts spotting for the all lands thun any enemy or any

fred

on

race. History bears record (Cheers), / much to do that there is no time to losses. We are trying to meet these German artillery. One Messerschmitt Some have compared Hitler's conteatures will, but certain broad losses by building new ships, repair-spiralled down out of control and is

them the Alerce

winds

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to-day,

divi-

beyond

have

area. The women

traffic

were standing

High Purpose

Opportunist Drive "Napoleon flashed away, So I "As we know the Germans had no which, added to our own large pro-

United States YUNNANESE TO construction by the derive confidence that the will-power of the British nation, expressing it expectations of proceeding

el Agheilu, They meant to engage gramme, should see us through that STUDY IN US.A. celf through the stern, steadfast and

alyear. Maybe. 1943, If we have to unyielding House of Commons, will our armoured forces and create

orm its liberating

diversion to prevent the despatch of endure it as a year of war, will pre- ogair perform once

Greece whilst sent easier problems. reinforcements humbly execute functions and

bringing over large forces from Italy!

United States Aid high purpose among men.

"The United States patrol an- say this with more confidence and Sicily. because we are no longer a small "When they won their surprising nounced by President Roosevelt takes eland lost in the northern mists but success, they accepted it with

or a considerable part of the Atlantic in audacity, and pushed on into a certain degree off our hands, but around us gather in broad array all the desert taking little though! of we need a good de

deal more help and nations of the British Empire. Now from across the Atlantic the mighty what they should eat or drink on the I expect that we shall get a good deal United States Republic proclaims it-morrow. They pushed on until they more help in many ways. It has self on our side or at our side, or at. came up against the very heavy prop been declared that we are to havo

at Tobruk and until they came to all the help that is

necessary, but rale near our side. I do not to-day discuss the large frontiers of Egypt and He

the large forces which guard the here I speak with caution because no back British Minister can forecast and suli and complicated questions of muni- tlons or food questions. Probably in securely based on road and sea com- lest prescribe the polley of the United

States, a secret session, the Minister of munications. Supply will make a statement to the

House,

Tank Strategy

"At present they have stopped. It "When a mighty democracy of world be foolish to carry the story 130,000,000 gels on the move, one further, but as long as the enemy has can only awalt the full developments the superiority in armoured vehicles of the translation of those they will have the advantage in

paychological

vast

on

KUNMING, May 7 (Central News), create a competent In order to personnel for service in various fields of administration in the province, the Yunnan Provincial Government at its to dis- meeting yesterday decided patch students to study in America Government scholarships. The first batch of students numbering 40, will be sent within a short period. Hata's Inspection Of Front Lines

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" NANKING, May 7 (Domel).— General Shunroku Hata, Commander- in-Chief of the Japanese Expedition- ary

-Forces to China, who has into been Inspecting manifestations

the fronts neor desert warfare, although at present physical means.

Kingmen, Yingahan, Yingcheng, Nan- the air forces are about equni.

Hiller's fear of the United States chang and other places in the Wuhan Germans Face Problems is apparent from the fact that he has area, returned here yesterday. In the last war, tanks

"For the invasion of Egypt with hot, long ago, declared war were built to

"I have never under-rated our go three or four miles an hour and the German main force, enormous

"There is ane simple point about tanks which Mr Hore-Bellsha in his speech yesterday might have men- tioned, for he was Head of the War Office in the years preceding the war.

on' them.

But

stand

up to rifle or machine-gun preparations would be required. A problems and dangers. We are Aght- bullets. In the interval mechanical, pipe line might have to be made to ing for our life and for survival from science has advanced so much that carry an artificial river forward with day to day and hour to hour. it Is possible to make turks go up to the troops. We are lying back on Hitler has his problems too, and if 28 miles an hour and stand up to our fertile desert, which, incidentally, we only remain united and strive to

in the

ilons and work together like one great profited.

have command of the sea, and finity, helping each other as the "We ha

confronted with five million families in Britain are and technical circles for years before the Germans

cannon fire. It in a particular re- chicle, worst ground for armoured do our utmost to increase our excr-

volution by which Her has

"It was well known in military

nre

1

con

the war,

It did not spring from Ger- problems far more dificult than any doing to-day under enemy fire,

This 1a cannot conceive how anyone man but from British ideas and others they have solved in Africa. like General de Gaulle. It has been all the more true while we are do doubt that victory will crown the exploited and turned to our grievous fending as we intend to defend to good cause which we serve.

but high- the death without

thought of reure- Injury by the non-Inventive but

ve but high-

Germans. ment, the highly offensive outpoints

ly competent and imitelere felisha, of Crete and Tobruk.

For the comfort of Mr

"Crete has not yet been attacked

Little

Achievements THIS is almost a year Bince the disastrous buttle of France. iny before us and

did Hitler know when he received the total We in capitulation of France and expected

let me tell him that we are envy The atrategic, significance of Tobruk did we know what storms and porlis

tilo

Low

every month now na many tanks as there existed in the British was obvious from the first, and any Army at the time that he left the one can see how irresistibly it has War Office and that we shall, before proved itself on the enemy.

weeks and of

of the world in a few years the end of this year, be producing tend to fight with all our strength to bo master of Europe in

and the command nearly double that. This takes no for the Nile valley. account of the immerse production in of the Mediterranean. Our troops that, ten months later, he would be

appealing to

to the much-tried Gerinan the United States,"

and our resources will give a good

people to prepare themselves for the account of themselves.

of 1942. war

Reply To Lloyd George Replying to Mr Lloyd George's eriticisms about the composition of the Government, Mr Churchill de-

Generala Mistakes "Therefore, lot thero be no feather

"When I look back upon the perils which we have overcome and remem healed or defeatist talk about cut ber all that has gone wrong and all clared that the Government works ting our losses in the Middle East. That has gone right I feel muro that easily and effectively at present, and As I said in December, when our we have no need to fear the tempost. "I do not propose to make further situation in Egypt was for more "Let it roar, let it rage. We shall

critical than change until further advised.

now, It is a case of deeds como through.'" (Cheers). "Something has been said of the not words. Imperiance of my being surrounded "Our Generala

on the spot bellaved

President Roosevelt's Condition Improves

by people who would stand up to me that no superior German orco con and say No No No He has no advance effectively across the desert {iden how

strong the negative as soon or as quickly as they did, principle is in the Constitution and and if they rld advance, they would not be able to nourish themselves businybos who

KING'S working of the

difficulty is not

WASHINGTON, May 7 (Router). President Roosevelt's: condition: has improved but his doctor, liks advised hìnhol táv÷Indoorne for atwo sides

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Nazis Want Air

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SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

ISTANBUL, May 7 (UP)-Diplo matic sources 'state that the Germaus

are bringing pressure on Vichy for

air bases in Syria.

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