"There is one simple point about tanks which Mr. Here-Belisha in his speech yesterday might have mentioned, for he was head of the Whar Office in the years preceding the war, In the last war, tanks were built to go three or four miles an hour and stand up to rifle or machine-gun bullets, In the interval, mechanical science has advanced so much, that it is possible to make tanks to go up to 25 miles an hour and stand up to cannon fire.
"It is a particular revolution by which Hitler has profited, It was well known in military and technical circles for years before the war. It did not spring from German, but from British ideas and others like 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, Hore-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 Office, 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 that he did not propose to make any further changes until further advised, "Something has to been said of the importance of my being surrounded by people who would stand up to me and say no, no, no. He has no idea how strong the negative principle is in the constitution and working of British war making machinery, The difficulty is not to have more brakes put on the wheel but to get more impetus and force behind it, "In the business of Libya and Greece, no violence has been done to export military opinion. All desi-sions have been taken unitedly and ireely, voluntarily and in good will, under the pressure of events. I Personally, as head of the government, obviously assumed responsibility in the most direct personal fom, "It follows that I am the one whose head may be cut off if we do not win this war—and I am very ready that this should be so—and that because the Membe: of the House would probably experience an even more unpleasant fate at the hands of the triumphant Huns, "There is a tendency in some quarders, especially abroad, to talk about the Middle Cost as if we could afford te lose our position there and yet carry on the war to victor on the oceans and in the air,
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