The Government did not. resent the well-meant criticism of any man who wished to win the war. Nazi and Bolshevik dictatorships had silenced ell criticism by the concentration camp, rubber truncheon or the firing party.
"What we have seen of the Rus?
an war effort, opposed by the heroic Finns," he continued, "should give British and French democracies additional confidence in the struggle against Nazi despotism.
"The budget is so fierce and heavy that it has imposed new burdens on wage-earners and these have been accepted without demur."
In the financial field, Mr. Churchill said, the Chancellor of the Exchequer was building a "veritable Maginot Line" of financial strength and confidence.
He said he could not rid fis mind of the feeling that the imperial Germany of 1914 was a stronger community than Nazi Germany, "Haggard and hard-driven, the Nazi regime, raised and reared from defeat and hatred, may function for a while, but whether it has the same solidarity and power to endure reverses as the Kaiser's Germany has yet to be proved," he declared, and added: "We must put it to the proof."
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