London, June 28.
"I see that Dr. Goebbels' Italian counterpart, Signor Gayda, has been jeering at us because we have not gone to war with Japan on account of the gross insults to which English~ men and New Zealanders were subjected in Tientsin' declared ' Mr. Winston Churchill in the course of a speech today at the Carlton Club in London.
"I am glad that the Government have not been provoked into taking their eyes oft the target. These studied insults and affronts from the Japanese—a nation hitherto renowned for their good manners—may well have been a trap to lure us away from seas where any major trouble which may arise will be decided.
"We ought not to send out a Fleet to the Far East until we are sure of our position in the Mediterranean, Then probably it will not be necessary, because once our position is sure in the Mediterranean, I think you will find that the Japanese will recover their old long-famed courtesy.
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