Sta,—Many of your readers will be grateful for Mr. Wilson
Harris' article on our Prime Minister ; and for .the opportunity of reabsorbing the grandeur of some of the finest speeches ever made by a statesman of this, or any other, country. Mr. Harris says that "memory is short," but he would have been nearer the truth, in this instance, if he had said that a few memories are short: I write as an ordinary, insignificant citizen whose job has been the carrying-on of unspectacular, routine work, and I feel sure I voice the sentiments of many such, when I say that the inspiration, and challenge, of our Prime Minister's words have been as a shining light through the "many, many long months" of monotonous, necessary daily duties. And that shining light irradiates the ordinary tasks with a sense of high purpose, of which Mr. Churchill's personality and courageous zeal are the epitome.
Asa nation we, rightly, fear to appear flamboyant in our expression of praise, but the overwhelming majority of our citizens never forget, and never can forget, the incalculable debt which we, and future generations, owe to the finest man of "our finest hour." As we face the last steep slope, at the top of which we sight the "sunlit uplands," we are anxious. to give the last possible ounce of help to those upon whom the heaviest burdens lie ; and it is for this reason that we now urge the Government to remember their promise not to introduce controversial legislation until we all stand together on the peak of victory.—Yours faithfully,
The Rookery, Stowmarket, Suffolk.
60ROTHY HARVEY-PIPER (MRS.).
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