Greenwood; "(We are Immeasurably Stronger"
London, Aug. 31. 6GPJITLER has challenged a vation that is without fear and a people who cannot be intimidated. We enter upon the second year of the war with justifiable faith that victory will be ours."
This was the key ni ote of an inspiring message given to Reuter yesterday by Mr. Arthur Greenwood, Minister without Portfolio, as the first-year of the war drew to a close.
"We have been at war a year and] the scales were heavily weighed against us at the start, but we have survived the. most dangerous and difficult period-and we are immeasurcontrol of the seas is unchallongeable. destroyed the legend of invincibility ofthe German' Air Force but is British race there has ever been the steel like unity which binds our people together today. In Mr. Churchill we have a Prime Minister who personifies in the highest degree in his speech and actions and. leadership the spirit, thoughts and impulses of a nation at war. When our. nation of. free people with its tried and proved qualities of character is wholly united under inspired leadership in which it has complete confidence, and is moved by the unshakeable, compelling conviction that its cause' is a just and righteous tale of humanity, it becomes. an untonquefable force—a force that will scale the heights of human endurance and human VENT.
Immense Scale "Hitler has challenged. a nation thet is without fear and a people who cannòt be intimidated. We have met and frustrated him; we have inflicted and shall continue to inflict powerful, damaging counter-blows.
"More important still, we are equipping ourselves on an immense
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