The Archive · 1940

United Witt to Win Stressed

London, Jan. 20.

"We realise that to secure victory the struggle we will require all the energy and resolution we can command." Lord Halifax, the Foreign Minister, declared in' his speech at Leeds today. "In democracy. there is no surrender of private judgment, "no coercion by secret polley," he added. "Admittedly. this Increased the difculties of any Gov-) ernment in time of preparation and planning, but' when trouble comes the fact that the people know and the people approve' invest the decisions reached with an overwhelming force of free judgment and united will It was that unity of moral pur. pose which Hitler rated so low that will be the principal cause of his defeat."

Referring to. the origins of the war, he said that shortly after the Munich agreement, Hitler made it Heligoland: German Fortress Target of British Bombs Here is an exclusive aerial view of Heligotand, the Germai of the objectives of British ai it raids. possesses, are clearly defined i

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