NEWS OF THE WEEK
F the Prime Minister's address to Congress at Washington on Wednesday was listened to in high quarters in Berlin, as no oubt it was, its confidence and vigour must have aroused disturbing onions. Mr. Churchill conveyed no new information, except for is statistics of casualties and the statement that the force of ancasters which attacked the Westphalia dams on Sunday night umbered 19 ; but he conveyed assurances, which evoked tumultuous pplause, as to Britain's resolve to fight on till Japan is reduced to potence as complete as is in store for Germany, and understand- gs calculated to be no less welcome at Moscow and Chungking, of ;.'w campaigns to relieve the pressure on Russia in one continent nd on China in another. What is being determined in the con- rences at Washington, and how and where the decisions there 'mg taken will bear their appointed fruit, was not, and could not, be sclosed. But Congress was content, as the rest of the Allied world ay be equally, to know that expectation will not long remain un- usfied. As always, the Prime Minister avoided excessive optimism, fusing either to claim that the war was won or that it soon ould be, but as a whole his survey of the situation was uniformly couraging. The shipping output of the United States alone, he
d his audience, now exceeds the total losses of all the Allies. The .A.F., it has been stated on equally good authority, is more powerful Ian the Luftwaffe, and capable of more rapid expansion—the more since Mr. Churchill's assurance that Germany's aircraft and other ar industries will be attacked till they are crippled and smashed
di unquestionably be made good. In all this the co-operation of s: two great English-speaking countries is complete, alike in its con- ption and its execution, and it was of good omen that no passage the Premier's speech was more loudly cheered than his emphatic eclaration that "there is nothing more important for the future the world than a fraternal association of our two peciples in ghteous work both in war and peace." That is the simple fact,
and incontestable.
