New York, June 23.
Lithuania today declared its in-€ependence, a report arriving. here from Helsinki, capital of Finland, 3oid.—Domei Rumanians Claim Another Town London, June 28, Reni, on the Rumanian-Bessarabian border, has been captured by Rumanian troops, stated the Rome Radio today.—Reuter, Speaking on the radio to Britain and overseas in the shortest notice broadcast since Mr, Neville Chamberlain announced the declaration of wes against Germany, Mr. Churchill said:
"I have taken the occasion to speak to you tonight because we have reached one of the climacterics of the war, In the first of these intense points a year ago France fell prostrate under the German. hammer and we had to face the storm alone, The second was when the Royal Air Force beat the Hun raiders out of the daylight air, and thus warded off a Nazi invasion of our island while we were still ill-armed and ill-pre pared, The third turning point was when the President and Congress of the United States passed the Lease and Lend enactment, devoting nearly £2,000,000,000 of the wealth of the New World to help us to defend our liberties and their own.
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