The Archive · 1940

Liberal Leader's Views

Sir Archibald Sinclair, leader of the Liberal Parliamentary Party, dis cussing the question of Reace in an address, at his installation yesterday as Lord Rector of Glasgow University, said an indispensable condition for obtaining an adequate peace was victory.

The Nazi system was a cancer in the body of Europe, devouring all the healthy tissues of civilization and replacing them with perhaps the most cruel, remorseless, perfidious, and certainly the most efficient tyranny the world had ever known, referred to concentration camps as "those loathsome, festering sores'

Sir Archibald added: "In fighting Hitler's foul conspiracy against the principles of decency of western. feivilization, none can doubt the. Justice of cur cause. It is a gigantic and hazardous enterprise to which we are committed, calling for the realest efforts of the whole nation and of every. individual man and Rumanian Maginot Line Completed Bucharest, Feb. 9.

News of @ now defence line, the s called Carol's Dyke, has been released the press here for the first time.

Whole pages In today's newspapers are devoted to descriptions and illus. {rations of this Rumanian "Maginot Line."

The "Universul" declares that any attempt at a surprise attack, will certainly foil. No tank, it claims, could pass those gigantic traps and canals, whose waters would be in-Stantly "covered with inflammable "The fortifications are said to have! been executed in record time, and materialized from the slogan: "Not an Full-Blooded Indians Come with Canadians London, Feb. 9.

An American was among! the first to] tand. when the third contingent Canadian troops arrived at a west east port yesterday after an uncventful voyage in famous liners, escorted by the British Fleet. He. said he! Joined the Canadian Army because he: "thought It would be fun."

fixing with Scots and French' Canadians, one party were full-blood-fed Indians, described by an officer fs of "infinite patience and excellent Some Canadians spoke Gaelle-Reuter.

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