The Archive · 1941

Promise of Aid

"They have drawn their swords in this cause. They will never let them fall till life is gone or victory is won. Here we meet while from across the Allantic Ocean the hammers and lathes of the United States signal in a rising hum their message of encouragement and their promise of swift and ever-growing aid.

"What tragedies, what horrors. what erhnes has Hitler wud all that Hitler "stands for brought upon Europe and the world, The ruins of Warsaw, Rotterdam, "Belgrade are monuments which will long recall to future generations the outrage of unopposed alr-bombing applied with calculated, selentife cruelty to help-ess populations verge.

"But T may with some pride remind Your Excellencies that even that dark hour when our army was disorganized and almost wea ponies, when scarcely a gun or tank remained in Britain, when almost all four stores and ammunition had been lost in-France, never for one moment cause. did they despair of the common

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