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When I awoke on the morning of Sunday, the 22nd, the news was brought to me of Hitler's invasion of Russia. This changed into certainty. I had not the slightest doubt where our duty and our policy lay. Nor indeed what to say. There only remained the task of composing it. I asked that notice should immediately be given that I would broad-cast at 9 o' clock that night. Presently General Dill, who had hastened down from London, came into my bedroom with detailed news. The Germans had invaded Russia on an enormous front, had surprised a large portion of the Soviet Air Force grounded on the airfields, and seemed to be driving forward with great rapidity and violence

I spent the day composing my statement. There was not time to consult the War Cabinet, nor was it necessary. I knew that we all felt the same on this issue. Mr. Eden, Lord Beaverbrook, and Sir Stafford Cripps – he had left Moscow on the 10th – were also with me during the day.

The following account of this Sunday at Chequers by my Private Secretary, Mr. Colville, who was on duty this weekend, may be of interest:

"On Saturday, June 21, I went down to Chequers just before dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Winant, Mr. and Mrs. Eden, and Edward Bridges were staying. During dinner Mr. Churchill said that a German attack on Russia was now certain, and he thought that Hitler capitalist and Right Wing sympathies in this country and the U. S. A. Hitler was, however, wrong and we should go all out to help Russia. Winant said the same would be true of the U. S. A.

After dinner, when I was walking on the lawn with Mr. Churchill, he e, and I asked whether for him, the arch anti-Communist, this was not bowing down in the House of Rimmon. Mr. Churchill replied, "Not at all. I have only one purpose, the destruction of Hitler, and my life is much simplified . It Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable

I was awoken at 4 a. m. the following morning by a telephone message from the F. O. to the effect that Germany had attacked Russia. The P. M. had always said that he was never to be woken up fo

r anything but Invasion (of England). I therefore postponed telling him till 8 am. His only comment was, 'Tell the B.B.C. I will broadcast at 9 to – night. 'He began to prepare the speech at 11a. m., and except for luncheon

（= lunch）, at which Sir Stafford Cripps, Lord Cranborne, and Lord Beaverbrook were present, he devoted the whole day to it… The speech was only ready at twenty minutes to nine." In this broadcast I said:

"The Nazi all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination. It s in the efficiency of its cruelty and aggression. No one has been a more consistent no word that I have spoken about it. But all this fades away before the spectacle which is now unfolding. The past, with its crimes, its follies, and its tragedies, flashes away. I see the Russian soldiers standing on the of their native land, guarding the fields which their fathers have e . I see them guarding their homes where mothers and wives pray - ah, yes, for there are times when all pray – for the safety of their loved ones, the return of the bread-winner, of their champion, of their protector. I see the ten thousand villages of Russia where the means of existenchuman joys, where maidens laugh and children play. I see advancing upon all this in e, with its Prussian officers, its the of crawling locusts. I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky, still from many a British whipping, delighted to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey.

"Behind all this glare, behind all this storm, I see that small group of men who plan, org

"I have to declare the decision of His Majesty's Government - and I feel sure it is a decision in which for we must speak out now at once, without a day's

delay. I have to make the declaration, but can you doubt what our policy will be? We have but one aim and one single, purpose. We are resolved to destroy Hitler and every of the Nazi regime. From this nothing will turn us –; we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang. We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air, until, with God's help, we have rid . Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man or state who marches with Hitler is our foe... That is our policy and that is our declaration. It follows therefore that we shall give whatever help we can to Russia and the Russian people. We shall as we shall faithfully and to the end....

"This is no class war, but a war in which the whole British Empire and Commonwealth of Nations is engaged, without distinction of race, , or party. It is not for me to speak of the action of the United States, but this I will say：of effort in the great democracies who are resolved upon his , he is ken. On the contrary, we shall be fortified and encouraged in our efforts to rescue mankind from his

"This is no time to moralise on the follies of countries and Governments which have allowed themselves to be struck down one by one, when by united action they could have saved themselves and saved the world from this and the hateful appetites which have or him on his Russian adventure I said there wa. He wishes to destroy the Russian power because he hopes that if he succeeds in this he will be able to bring back the main strength of his Army and Air Force from the East and hurl it upon this Island, which he knows he must conquer or suffer the ritish Isles. He hopes, no doubt, that all this may be accomplished before the winter comes, and that he can overwhelm Great Britain before the Fleet and air-power of the United States may

destroying his enemies one by one by which he has so long thrived and prospered, and that then the scene will be clear for the final act, without which all hi …… 此处隐藏：7347字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……