Three out of the five Secret -Session speeches by Mr.
Churchill pub- lished in this country this week (Cassell, 6s.) have appeared already in the United States, but they are unfamiliar here, and even after the lapse of years and the achievement of total victory those un- faltering accents, voicing an unconquerable hope in the darkest moments of the ordeal, can be read only by the coldest-blooded without a thrill. I should like to think that somehow or other the Russian people could be given access to such a sentence as this— from the long and immensely important speech on " The Fall of Singapore " in April, z942 : " What can we do to help Russia ? There is nothing that we would not do. If the sacrificeof thousands of British lives would turn the scale, our fellow-countrymen would not flinch." It was not addressed to the Russian 'Davie ; it was not even addressed to the British people ; it was spoken in Secret Session to three or four hundred M.P's. But it was the plain and simple truth about Britain's attitude to her Soviet ally. jaws.
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