Stating that we need not bewail the fact that we have been called upon fo face such solemn respons: bilies, but might be proud and even rejoice amid our tribulations that we have been born at this cardinal time, Mr, Churchill sad that wickedness, enormous, panoplied, embattled and seemingly triumphant had cast its shadow over Europe and Asia. Laws fand customs were broken up, Justice cast from her seat, the rights of the weak trampled down, the grand freedoms, which President Roosevelt had spoken of so mov: ngly, spurned and ¢hained, the whole structure of man, his genius, his initiative and his nobility ground down under systems of mechanical barbarism, of organized ud scheduled terror.
"For more than a year we British have stood alone, uplifted by your sympathy and respect and sustained by" our own unconquerable will power and by the Increasing growth and hopes of your massive ald," said Mr, Churchill "in these British (slands we stand faithful guardians of the rights and dearest hopes of a dozen slates and notions now gripped and tormented In base and cruel servitude. Whatever, happens we shall endure to the Lack of Vision "IL was but few. years ago. since one united gesture by the peoples of the great and small nations who are now broken In the dust would have warded off from mankind the fearful ordeal it, has had to undergo. But there was no unity or vision.
"One by one the nations. let themselves be caught and felled by brutal violence or poisoned " from within by, subtle intrigues "And now." declared Mr. Churchill in conclusion, "the old lion with her: Won cubs at'her side stands alone against hunters armed with deadly Wenpons and impelled by desperate and destructive rage, Is a tragedy to repeat itself once more? Ah nol this not the end of the tate, "Not so easily shall the onward progress of peoples be barred. Not so easily shall the lights of freedom, dle, But time is short, Every month U. Ambulance Corps Gift To Britain New York, June 17.
Carrying "Democracy's time-piece," 'a novel gold lapel watch for pri sentation to Queen Elisabeth from the British-American " Ambulance Corps and 1,000. vitamin capsules for the British Ministry of Health, Col Stewart Roddie left for England by Clipper yesterday morning to become the Corps' first representative in Britain,
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