"It was only yesterday that we were once again thrilled to read a speech by Mr. Winston Churchill. He told us the truth, stressed the gravity of the issue. admitted mistakes. pointed out the significance of events in the Near and Middle East where Britain is going to fight with all its strength, and gave a peroration charged with well-justified confidence. want to repeat just twq of hiq sentences. They are these: 'I have never promised anything but blood. tears, toil and sweat, to which I will add our full share of mistake shortcomings and disappointments, and also that this may ko on for u very long time, at the end of which I firmly believe there will be a complete and final victory.... When 1 look back on the perils which we have overcome, and remember all chat has gone wrong and also all that has gone right, I fee] sure that we have no need to fear the tempest. Let it roar. let it rage. we shall come through.' Nothing needs to be added—nothing except our own determination that we, for our part. shall not be found lacking as regards the spirit we show and the sacrifice we make in the long hard days ahead."
"There wes another speech this week which has an importance all its own. It was delivered by Mr. Van Kleffens. Foreign Minister of the Netherlands Government, now on a visit to the Netherlands East Indies.
It was a plain statement that the Netherlands East Indies wil] fight if necessary to preserve their independence. Coming as it does so recently after the important talks in Manila between American, British ana Netherlands Military and political personages. we can safely deduce that the democracies are prepared for any possible development in the Far East. and that Japan—now being so plainly warned in America—must veigh her actions in the light of the gravest possible consequences to her.
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