The "Daily Herald" observes: "Cooly surveying the prospects, the Prime Minister gave us reasons for confidently hoping we can beat off an attempted invasion his summer. He based these hopes not on a blind faith of British invincibility, but on a sober examination of facts."
"Mr. Churchill drew up a balance sheet, and found that we are still strategically solvent," declares The "Times." Regarding the Royal Air Force, the paper concludes: "In no department of the war is it more certain every day that successful defence means progress first towards material equality, then superiority and, at last, complete victory."
The "Daily Mail" demands conscript tion for the entire nation. "British people, alive with eagerness to serve, state they don't want to be asked to work, They want to be ordered to their posts.'—Reuter,
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