London, May 25, "The country's needs are imperative, inescapable and imperious, and we shall pay dearly if we fail to meet them," declared the Prime Minister, Mr, Winston Churchill, in a letter to the special conference of executive councils of unions affiliated to the Trades Union Congress, which met today, The conference endorsed the decision of the General Council to give support to the measures necessary to protect the public against the dangers inherent in the present situation by Organizing the entire resources of the country, and striving to the utmost to defeat the forces of aggression, "Mr. Churchill's letter added:
"We have the fullest confidence in the readiness of organized workers to accept the obligations arising out of the demands which the State is compelled to make upon their endurance and their capacity for sacrifice, "The gravity of the hour deepens hour by hour, and we are all called upon to make a supreme effort to defend the country and to preserve our liberties and win the war."
After Mr, Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour, had explained his plan of operations, the conference adopted a resolution expressing to the "heroic defenders of liberty," the armed forces and merchant navies of the Allies, its profound tribute at their iron resolve to withstand the forces of aggression and to achieve victory.—Reuter, British Planes Active In. Norway Stockholm, May 25.
British naval planes this morning bombed German air bases at Tromsoe, destroying petrol depots and a number of planes. Air operations are taking place at height varying from 400 to 1,000 meters, it is reported. Detachments of the Norwegian 6th division are progressing southward.—Havas. us. Defeat will not mean some brief eclipse from which we shall emerge with strength renewed—it will mean the destruction of our world as we know it and the descent of darkness upon. its ruin."
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