The Archive · 1941

BY SAPAJOU

cudes for years before the war. It id not spring from German, but from British ideas and others {ike Gen, de Gaulle, It has been exploited and turned to our grievous injury by the non-inventive but highly competent and imitative Germans.

"For the comfort of Mr, Here Belisha, let me tell him that' we are making' every month now as many heavy tanks as there existed in the British Army at the time he left the War Ofee, and that we shall, before the end of this year, be producing nearly double that, "This takes no Account of the immense production of the United States,'

Replying to Mr, Lloyd George's criticisms about the composition of the Government, Mr, Churchill declared that the present body works easily and effectively at present, and thay he did not propose to make any further changes until further ad~ vised, "Something has to been said of the importance of my being surrounded by people who would stand me and say no, no, no. He has no idea how strong the negative prin and work= machinery, The diMeulty is not to have more brakes put on the wheel but 10 get more impetus and force behind it, "In the business of Libya and Greece, no violence has been done to export' military opinion. All deolsions have been taken untiedly and freely, voluntarily and in Hood under' the pressure of even personally, as head of the govern. ment, obviously assumed responsi bility" inthe "most direct personal "It'follows that Tam the one whose head may be cut off if we do not win this war—and Tam very randy that thig should be so—and that bo~ cause the Members of the House would probably experience an even more unpleasant fate at the hands of the triumphant Huns, "There is a tendency in some quarters, especially abroad, to falke about the Middle Ecst as if we could afford lose our position there and yot carry on the war to vielory on the oceans and in the air,

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