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Show fhurchill Delays Death-Country Recalls War Memories "V DAN Cunningham Uiromcle Staff Writer frmthe SionChur'vn 6rS War Win" unite h' I" PPed forth to c0Untryand lead his beloved ifiVED on the kti on TWrId War 11 i H me Minister and Min-fought Min-fought on 7 6ense' Churchill trhewSe ground as Nag3" known the war was ?t2heCHrURCHILL warn-newa warn-newa 1 6rman w" ma-Ji ma-Ji from mg 'ike the Phoebe Phoe-be Peatl 3S, 6S' and once M him. ent- Bntain ignor- He rote rv te' dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry." Then the German warriors began their march eastward to the Russian plains, westward west-ward to the Atlantic waters, and Britain had to awaken from its slumber. H i s predictions realized, Churchill saw the war burst into violence. NEVILLE Chamberlain resigned re-signed as Prime Minister on May 10, 1940, and Churchill, replaced him. Three days later the new Prime Minister told the House of Commons: "We have before us an ordeal or-deal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many long months of struggle and of suffering." suff-ering." The British policy, he said would be to: ". . . wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, man crime." Churchill gave the British objective in one word "Victory victory at all costs." There would be no survilal, he warned, without victory. AS FOR HIMSELF, he said simply, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." That was all, but it would prove to be enough. Attempting to bolster a faltering falt-ering France, Churchill stated, stat-ed, "Never will I believe that the soul of France is dead." But the Germans pushed, conquered France, and Britain was alone. WITH AIRBASES close to the island, Germany waged an air war against Britain. German Ger-man planes frequently crossed the Channel in 1940 in an effort ef-fort to bring Brtain to her knees. But German efforts failed. Then Churchill ordered that bombs be dropped on German soil, at first a token measure. AN ANGRY Hitler warned that Germany "would drop 100 bombs for each Britaish bomb until Britain gets rid of this criminal and his methods." Churchills strength and courage cour-age must have frustrated Hitler, Hit-ler, forf he went to say; "Churchill is the most bloodthirsty blood-thirsty of amateur strategists that history has ever known." To Hitler's dismay, Churchill Church-ill remained at the helm of Britain, and Britain hung on courageously, every week absorbing ab-sorbing Germany's blows, draining Germany's strength until the Allies could rally. ARTER TELLING France that England would fight on regardless of a French capitulation, capitula-tion, the French generals had said, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken." In 1941 Churchill gloated, "Some chicken! Some neck!" BRITAIN never gave in, and Britain never saw German soliders invade her shores. Churchill was certainly a factor fac-tor in this resistance. But after leading his countrymen through the terror of war, in April 1945 Churchill and his Conservative party were defeated by the Labour party. WEARY FROM his war efforts, ef-forts, Churchill visited Dwight D. Eisenhower, with whom he had labored in the war for survival. |
