Sept, 2.
The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, in a speech at Coventry drew an important distinction between "the battle for survival and the battle for victory. If there is no relaxation of effort, it is now almost certain that the British Empire and her allies. will win the battle for survival. In. this struggle the Russians are playing an enormous part, and the heroism being shown along the huge front from the Arctic to the Black Sea has excited the world's admiration to almost the same extent as has the courage with which the British people have fought back the Nazi attempts. to. destroy their -cities and homes by indiscriminate bombing. "But the battle for survival is only one stage in the conflict, It is leading up to the battle for victory, of which it is the Srst act, The Germans started this war with the great advantage of preparedness. Wing Commander L. V. Fraser, whose' special message to the "North-China Dally News" was published in Sunday's issue, made this Point clear so far as the Royal Ait Force was concerned. The same holds true for the army, though fortunately for the British Empire, the navy was stronger, more modern,
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