"We have had a week of notable speeches. Hitler's furious and venomeus tirade against Mr. Winston Churchill was the utterance of a hate-ridden man. Hitler lied as usual when he said that Churchill had duped the British people into war. Tt was by the will of the people of Britain and the British Empire that Hitler's ruthless subjugation of smaller neighbours was opposed. It is by the unanimous demand of the people that this war is being continued. In the free and unfet-
{eret parliamentary institutions of the Empire this is being constantly proved. If there are criticisms—i we have seen this week in the Hou: of Commons—they are not against the war being prosecuted but on noints of detail, policy and strategy. The votes in the House of Lords and and House of Commons are more than answer to Hitler's roarings and ravings in his tame, rubber-stamp Reichstag, whence the breath of free criticism has long since departed. The Arch-Nazi's defiance to the world has impressed no-one who matters. It might have bolstered the German people; it has frightened noone outside the Reich. Least of all has it impressed the people or Government of the United States in the way intended "Mr. Wendell Willkie. several newly formed influential groups and committees, the main body of the newspaper press, including the powerful "Baltimore Sun' and many leading Congressmen have voiced stronger than ever before the growing demand thet America openly and actively joins in the war. It is not for me. a Briton, to say that she should. It is America's own business, but the speeches of Mr. Henry Stimson.
Secretary of War, and Colonel Frank Knox, Secretary of Navy, were such an open advocacy of direct naval participation and such a powerful in-dietment of Axis totalitarianism and all for which it stands. that it is no longer dangerous to prophesy the course of American action. Never more clearly or forcefully has America's danger been made plain; never has so logical a case been presented warning the United States against becoming an unwary sentinel of liberty. caught napping at a vital moment' Mr. Stimson's and Colonel Know's speeches hold the spotlight because they contained that augury of increasing aid upon which those now in the struggle have come to set such store.
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