"No Peace, No Rest, No Parley"

If Winston Churchill was still far from disarming British critics of his conduct of the war (see above), no one found fault with his spirit last week. A few days after outmaneuvering his Parliamentary questioners, he gave one of his richest expressions of Britain's fighting purpose, putting the quietus on any suspicion that the Churchill Government might accept a negotiated peace.

Behind the grim, bomb-scarred, brownstone walls of St. James's Palace the Prime Minister met with representatives of Britain's Allies.* Enlarging on a joint resolution to prosecute the war without letup, Winston Churchill made one of the most eloquent addresses of his career. Said he:

"Here we meet while from across the Atlantic Ocean the hammers and lathes of the United States signal in a rising hum their message of encouragement and their promise of swift and ever-growing aid. . . .

"Hitler, with his tattered lackey, Mussolini, at his tail and Admiral Darlan frisking by his side, pretends to build out of hatred, appetite and racial assertion a new order for Europe. Never did so mocking a fantasy obsess the mind of mortal man. . . .

"We cannot yet see how deliverance will come or when it will come, but nothing is more certain than that every trace of Hitler's footsteps, every stain of his infected, corroding fingers will be sponged and purged and, if need be, blasted from the surface of the earth. . . .

"We shall strive to resist by land and sea. We shall be on his track wherever he goes. Our air power will continue to teach the German homeland that war is not all loot and triumph. We shall aid and stir the people of every conquered country to resistance and revolt. . . .

"We shall break up and derange every effort which Hitler makes to systematize and consolidate his subjugations. He will find no peace, no rest, no halting place, no parley. ..."

* Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia, Greece, Luxemburg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Yugoslavia,Free France.

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