To English-Speaking Peoples

For the best part of a week Winston Churchill stayed at the White House, met Washington friends, saw much of his host, Franklin Roosevelt. Then he went north to Cambridge, Mass, to accept an Honorary LL.D. degree from Harvard. At Cambridge he spoke, and the world listened.

What Winston Churchill had to urge upon the great English-speaking peoples had been in the air, almost palpably, since victory became certain and postwar chaos suddenly imminent. He asked that Britain and the United States continue their present military alliance after the end of World War II. Said he:

> "We have now reached a point in the journey where there can be no pause. We must go on! It must be world anarchy or world order! ... At the present time . . . the British and United States combined Chiefs of Staff Committee . . . disposes of all our resources and in practice uses British and American troops, ships, aircraft, ammunition just as if they were the resources of a single state or nation.

> "In my opinion it would be a most foolish and improvident act on the part of our two Governments or either of them to break up this smooth-running and immensely powerful machinery the moment the war is over. For our own safety as well as for the security of the rest of the world we are bound to keep it working . . . after the war, probably for a good many years, not only until we have set up some world arrangement to keep the peace but until we know that it is an arrangement which will really give us that protection we must have from danger and aggression. I am not qualified to judge whether or not this would become a party question in the U.S.* ... I am sure that it would not be a party question in Great Britain.

> "If we are together, nothing is impossible. If we are divided, all will fail. I therefore preach continually the doctrine of the fraternal association of our two peoples, not for any purpose of .... territorial aggrandizement . . . but for the sake of service to mankind."

*A military alliance with Great Britain has already been urged by two leading Republican spokesmen: Representative Clare Boothe Luce (TIME, July 5), Governor Thomas E. Dewey.

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