The Archive · 1940

Allies Consolidate Strength

"Ceriainly it Is not from a false tense of dleliency nor love and Kind ness that we have not been attacked. Ought we to have begun, and instead of dropping Ieatets, dropped bombs?"

He said he was convinced that British policy had been right. The Allies had striven hard to make, the most of the time and preparation that had been gained and no doubt an enormous advance had been made oth in the protection of the civilian popttatign.and the punishment which would be inflicted upon raiders.

Germany." Mr. Churchill continued, "has been poing for three years at a full war-time pace, and may well be unable to make an addi ional spurt, while we have had to Alles Sounder, Stronger The British Empire and the French Republic together, he said, were far stronger in physical energy and psy-hie strength than Hitler's Germany.

"Come then to the task of battle and toll, each to our station. Fill the armies, rule the alr, pour out munitions, strangle the' U-boats, sweep the mines, plough the Iand, build ships, guard the Fleets, succour the wounded, uplift the downcast, honour the brave, go forward in all parts of the Empire." he urged. "There is fiot a week, a day, an hour to be Tost" Mr." Churchitt concluded.

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