"The addition of the whole Balkan people to the number of ancient independent states which have fallen under the Nazi yoke, and have to be held down by brute force or intrigue may by no means prove a source of strength to the Germany army. This vast machine is now spread from the Arctic to the Aegean, and from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. That is no source of strength, "Nothing will debar the Germans from establishing and shaping a new Europe, and one will certainly emerge, more than the fact that the German army and the German race have become, and are becoming more universally ' and intensely hated among the peoples of all lands than any enemy or any race of which history bears record.
"Some have compared Hitler's conquests with Napoleon's, It may be that Spain and Russia will shortly furnish new chapters to that theme, It must be remembered, however, that Napoleon's armies carried with them the fierce, liberating equalitarian winds of the French Revolution whereas Hitler's empire has nothing behind it but racial self-assertion, espionage, pillage, corruption and the Prussian boot.
"I have confidence that the will power of the British nation, expressing itself through a stern, steadfast, unyielding House of Commons, will once again perform its liberating functions and humbly execute a high purpose among men.
"I say this with more confidence because we are no longer a small island lost in the northern mists, but around us there gather in broad array all the nations of the British Erapire. Now from across the Atlantic, the might of the United States proclaims itself on our side or at our side, or at any rate near our side.
"I do not today discuss the large complicated questions of munitions, or food questions, Probably in a secret session, the Minister of Supply will make a statement to the House,
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