Bucharest, Feb. 10.
The British Minister, Sir Re~ ginal Hoare, presented a note at midday demanding his passports, it is officially announced, Sir Reginald will leave with a full staff or so in the first avail~ able boat on of after February 15—Reuter. tions, Baffled in this mighty project he sought (0 break the spirit of the British nation by bombing, frst, cities. 4 London and afterwards our great
"Our Spirit Aroused"
"It has now been proved to the admiration of the world and our friends in the United States that this form of blackmail by murder and terrorism, so far from weakening the spirit of the British nation, has only aroused it to a more intense univ fal flame than wag seen ever before any modern community.
"The whole British Empire has been proud of the Mother Country, and they long to be with us over here, oven in larger numbers. We have been deeply conscious of the Jove for us which fiat flowed from the Dominions of the Crown across the broad ocean spaces. There is the first of our war alms—to be worthy fof, that love and to preserve it.
"AIL though these dark winter months the enemy has had the power to drop three or four tons of bombs upon us for every ton we could send to Germany in return, We are arranging so that presently this will be rather the other way round, but meanwhile London and our big'cities have had to stand their pounding.
"Sust Ordinary Folk"
An invasion now would be sup ported by much more equipment and Spparatus, all planned and manufac: tured during the winter. Britain must be prepared to meet gas attacks, parachute attacks and glider attacks.
The Prime Minister emphasized that to win the war Hitler must destroy Britain, "He may carry the sword into the Balkan slates, tear great provinces out of Russia, and even march to the gate of India. He may spread his cause more widely throughout Europe and Asla,"but it will not avert his doom. With every month that passes, many proud and once happy countries he is now holding down by brute force and vile intrigues are learning to hate the treacherous yoke of the Nazi as nothing has ever been hated fiercely and wisely among men ber ore.
"We stood our ground and faced two Dictators in the hour of what seemed to be their overwhelming, triumph, and we have shown ourselves capable so far of standing up, ugalnst them alone:
"They remind me of the British squares at Waterloo, They are not squares of soldiers, they do not wear sealed coats, they' are just ordinary English and Welsh and Scottish folk, men, women and children standing steadfastly together. But their spirit 1 the same, their glory is the same, ud in the end their victory will be Greater than the famous Waterloo.
All honour to the civil defence services of all kinds—emergeney and regular, voluntary and professional, who have helped our people through this formidable ordeal, the like of which no civilized community has ever been called upon to undergo.
"More than two-thirds of the win-for have now gone, and so far there has been no serious epidemic. Indeed, there hag been no increase in illness" despite improvised conditions shelters. That is most creditable to local medical and sanitary author!= ties, to our devoted nursing staff, and to the Ministry of Health, whose head, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, is now going to Canada on other im= portant duties.
Five Months' Silence Master of the Air At the outset of his broadcast Mr. Churchill said: "It is more than five "We have broken the back of the winter, daylight grows, the RAF.
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