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German troops are tied up by this Allied hostility and. are deprived of their strategical ' importance in the open field of battle. And what is more important perhaps. is the fact that this fellowship of anti-Nazi endeavour has laid the foundations for a mutually ce-operative and sympathetic group of European nations when the day of victory arrives.
Hitler gibed that the Allied Governments in London were just politicians without peoples, generals without soldiers. He was wrong, utterly wrong. He knows only too well that Britain's pledge to restore the freedom of the peoples whom these governments and National coüncils represent, has inspired: not only the large number of soldiers and seamen and airmen of our Allies in Britain and the Middle East, but the people Hakka M who are still in all these countries and who, despite every sort of threat, listen night after night and day after day to the broadcasts of the B-BE."
These people know teo that-America with all her vast productive power stands behind them. Many of them hear the engines of the RAF. over their heads at night and they know that that sound carries with it the assurance that Britain stands behind them. The British Empire is pledged Meivo to the restoration of to freedom Europe.
"Damned If He Would Leave"
As for their faith in Allied victory, I' cannot do better than quote the case of a man in one of these countries who was offered every facildty for getting out of Naziland and coming to Shanghai. He replied that he was damned if he left Europe and missed the day when Hitlers troops were driven from his country. And he was a Jew.
They know as we do, that however black the situation may look today or tomorrow, the Nazis who are, as Mr. Churchill said, no more than "70 million malignant Huns some of whom are curable," have no hope of defeating the solid opposition of all Europe ang the world-wide power and resources of the British Empire and the United States, It is this which urges them on to every greater resistance as the pressure of Nazi terrorism increases. Once again it is shown that free peoples cannot be frightened out of freely taken decisidns.
What part does Britain play now. in supporting this vast comity of Allies? Well, it is of course impossible to give any details of British aid to our allies who are still in Europe under the Nazi heel. I believe that aid is considerable, but I know no more any other man-in-the-street. It is easy to underestimate the appreciation of the and confidence to those who must suffer the Nazi yoke in silence.
There is a minority problem in Eurove. The Nazis are that minority and because in relation to the vast numbers ofthe great and ancient CE veonles who have bonded themselves 5
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