Feb. 11.
It fs five months since Mr. Winston Churchill last made 'a speech to the Empire and the world at large. 'The interval seems to bbe Long, but he has other and bigger tasks than oratory. Yet his address, coming at a time when' Britain is striking heavy blows at the weaker party of the Axis, inflicting defeats upon her and paving the way for final victory, cannot but evoke responsive vibrations in the hearts of all those proud of being British. In the, course of his address, Mr. Churchill referred to President Roosevelt's letter to him introducing Mr. Wendell Willkie in which he quoted the following from_ Longfellow's. poem "The Building of the Ship":—
Sail on, oh ship of State: Sail on, ah Union siring and. great Humanity with all its fears, "With all the hopes of future years Is hanging -breathless on thy fate.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.