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WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 Minister Winston Churchill's United Press: Members of the Senate, tives, of the United States: I feel greatly honored that you should have invited me to enter the United States Senate chamber and address the representatives of both

branches of Congress.

The fact that my American forePears have for so many generations their part in the life of the ted States and that here I am, an Englishman, welcomed in your midst, makes this experience one of the most moving and thrilling in my life, which is already long and has not been entirely uneventful, I wish indeed that my mother, whose memory I cherish across the veil of years, could have been here today, By the way, I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British, instead of the other way around, I might have got here on my ewn, In that case this would not have been the first time you would have heard my voice. In that case I should not have needed any invi-

Churchill's Addres

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of the House of Representa-

to which I have had access. + Any ene who Hid not understand the size and rity of the founda-

have expected to find an exprove | disturbed, and self-centered atmosphere with all minds fixed upon the novel, startling and painful episodes of sudden war as they hit America. After all, the United States have been attacked and set upon by three of the most powerfully armed dictator states, the greatest military power in Europe, the greatest military power in Asia. Japan, Germany and Italy have all declared and are making war upon you, and a quarrel has been begun which can only end in their overthrow or yours. Here' in Washington, in these memorable days, I have found an Olympian fortitude which far from being based upon is only the mask of purpose and the proof of well grounded confidence in the final outcome. We in Britain had the same feeling in our darkest days. We, too,

tation, but if I had, it is hardly likely that it would have been | unanimous. So perhaps things are better as they are,

TRUSTS PEOPLE

I may say, however, that I do not feel quite like a fish out of water, in a legislative assembly where English is spoken. I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my father’s house to believe in democracy, and trust the people. That was his me . I used to see him cheered at meet- | ings and in the streets by crowds of working men way back in those aristocratic days when, as Disraeli said: “The world is for the few and for the very few.” Therefore I have been in full harmony all my life with the tides which have flowed on both sides of the At-

were sure that in the end all would be well. You do not, certainly, undeérrate the severity of the o to which you and we have still to

‘be subjected. The forces ranged

against us are enormous. They are bitter; they are ruthless. The wicked men of three nations

who have launched their peoples on

hat they will be called to verrible a if they cannot beat down by force of arms the peoples they have assailed. They will stop at nothing. They have a vast accumulation of war ns of all kinds. They have highly trained and disciplined armjes, navies and air services.

TIME OF TRIBULATION

They have plans and designs that have long been contrived and ma-

lantie against privilege and monopoly and I have steered confident- |

tured. They will stop at nothing

| that violence and treachery can

suggest. It is quite true that on

ly toward the Qettysburg ideal of}; side our resources in man power

government, of the people, by the people, for the people I owe my advancement entirely to} the House of Commons, whose servant I am In my country, as in this, public men are proud to be; the servant of the state, and would | be ashamed to be its master. On| any day, if they thought the people wanted it, the House of Commons could by a simple vote remove me from my office. But we are not worrying about it at all

LAUDS U. S. FORTITUDE

As a matter of fact I am sure they will approve very highly of my journey here for which I obtained the Kings permission in order to meet the President of the United States to arrange with him for all of the mapping out of our military plans and for all those intimate meetings of the high officers of the armed forces ©of both countries

and material are far greater than theirs. But only a portion of your resources are as yet mobilized and developed and we both of us have much to learn in the cruel art of war. We have, therefore, without doubt, a time of tribulation before us. In this same time, some ground will be lost which it will be hard and costly to regain. Many disappointments and unpleasant surprises await us. Many of them will affect us before the fall marshalling of our latent and total power can be accomplished. For the best part of 20 years, the youth of Britain and America have been taught that war was evil, which is (fue, and that it would never come again, which has been proved false. For the best part of 20 years, the youth of Germany, of Japan and Italy have been taught that aggressive war is the noblest duty of the citizen and that should be begun as soon as the

which are indispensable to the successful prosecution of the war. I should like to say first of all how much I have been impressed | and encouraged by the great point)

necessary weapons and organiza tion have been made. We have performed the duties incident to peace. They have plotted and planned for war. Naturally,

of view and sense of proportion this places us in Britain and now which I have found in all quarters places you in the United States at

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The broad flow of munitions in Great Britain has already begun. Immense strides have been made in the conversion of American industry to military purposes, and now that the United States is at it is possible for orders every day which in. a months hence will in war power anything that has been seen or foreseen in the dictator states. Provided that every e that nothing is kept whole manpower, brain ity, valor and virtue of speaking world, with all its galaxy of loyal friends are associated in a common community or state, we

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supreme God. I think it would be reasonable to hope that the end of 1042 will see us quite definitely in a better position than we are now. And that the year 1943 will enable us to assume the initiative upon an ample scale. Some peoplé may be sta

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Not all the tidings will be evil. On the contrary, mighty strokes of |war already have been dealt against

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d. The boastful Mussolini has trouble already. He is now but a lackey and a serf, the merest utensil of his master’s will. He has inflicted great suffering and wrong upon his ine dustrious people. He has been stripped of all his Empire. Abyssinia is liberated. Our armies of the east which were to weak and

ill-equipped at the moment of the French desertion, now control all the regions from Teheran to Benghagi, from Aleppo and Oyprus to the sources of the Nile. | Europe. For ‘many months we" devoted The armed forces of the enemy

ourselves to preparing to take the fora. he very con- in Cyrenaica amounted to about

offensive in 150,000 men of whom one-third were siderable battle which has been pro-| germans. General Auchinleck set

Seeding Shere fd Se HE yack out to destroy totally that armed fought on both sides. | force and I have every reason to Owing to the difficulties of sup-| believe that his aim will be fully plies upon the desert flank, we were| Accomplished. never able to bring numerically| I am so glad to be able to place ual forces to bear upon the enemy. before you members of the Senate erefore, we had to rely upon|and of the House of Representatives superiority in numbers and qualities| at this moment, when you are enof tanks and aircraft—British and tering the war, the proof that with American. : proper weapons and proper organiFor the first time, aided by these,| zation we are able to beat the life for the first time we have fought| out of the savage Nazis.

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What Hitler is suffering in Libya is only a sample and a foretaste of what we have got to give him and his accomplices wherever this war may lead us in every quarter of the globe. There are good tidings also from blue waters. The life line of supplies which join our two nations across the ocean, without which all would fail—that life line is flowing steadily and freely in spite of all that the enemy can do. It 1s a fact that the British Empire which many thought 18 months ago was broken and ruined, is now incomparably stronger and is growing stronger with every month. (The text was incomplete at press time.)

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