Lord Halifax Welcomed Viscount Halifax, after having received the unprecedented honour of being personally met by President Roosevelt on his arrival in the United States as Britain's Ambassador in succession to Lord Lothian, has met the American Press representatives, He has made a hit. Lord Halifax does look a very austere man, and the newspapermen thought he would turn' out to be exactly what he looked, Instead they found a friendly approachable man, ready to smoke with them and answer all questions in a friendly talk, Tt was a signify cant gesture which Me, Churchill made. when he appointed Lord Halifax to his present post, and the latter has made it quite clear that though he is an Ambassador, he hay gone to United States as a member of the British Cabinet, and consequently carries more authority than Would an ordinary appointee, 'Already' og a result of his first conversation with Mr, Cordell Hull, US. Secretary of State, hho has been able to say that both men saw things very much alike, That there should so much agreement between the two. is a happy augury for the future, for Hitler's wide= spread ambltfons have and the United States common cause, that Great Britain is America's first me defence. Lord Halifax's statement that Britain's most urgent need is the mobilization of the feat industrial strength of the United States fand translating it into action in supplying her with the ships and supplies that she needs, fan accurate statement of the case. A great effort Is. necessary. to save Democracy. Great Britain is making it, and doing so successfully, but the struggle will be shortened in direct
supplies are forthcoming from the factories. of ratio fo the rate in which supplies and more the United States, a Towards a New Era Britain has experienced a respite from heavy bombing by the Nazis, for which the weather lot the Nazis, may be thanked. It Is also pos* sible that preoccupations with moves he may {intend to make to relieve the Mediterranean position of his ally, have caused Herr Hitler to conserve his bombing fores. During this wel= come period when litre if any news comes of bombs dropped over Britain, letters are still being received which toll something of the horrors of the worst periods through which London survived. Writing to a friend in Aus tralia, a Londoner says "I fect privileged to live during a period in the world's history which, T believe, precedes the rebirth of a true Christian era." His belief is worth more than 9 second thought, since it crystallizes what are the Allied war aims, which have recently been openly questioned. The re-establishment of a true Christian. era—an era In which the reerudes= cence of horrible Nazi destructive forees will be impossible—iy a magnificent war aim. The idea might be expressed in many ways, but it must always be the same. For Christian and sceptic understand full well that they are Aghting to conquer forces which would overthrow indivi dual and national honour and every belief upon which the civilization of the world has been built up. Some may call these beliefs and this respect for honour by different names, but the names do not really matter, What is fundamental is that the Allies are now Aghting to preserve the most sacred foundations of a world in which people can live without fear, against a gang of thugs who believe that the world can bbe ruled by fear. They are fighting to preserve the basics of Christianity.
The Right Metre Tuenr are metres trochaic, And metres iambic, And metres of musical tone, But the metre that's neater, Completer, and sweeter Ts to meet her by moonlight alone!—"Charivari
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