WESTERN THEATRE: War on Civilians

Fifty weeks of the first year of World War II were history last week when Prime Minister Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill rose in the House of Commons to give Britain an account of the state of hostilities. Britain hung on his word as he said:

> "Hitler is now sprawled over Europe. Our offensive springs are being slowly compressed, and we must resolutely and methodically prepare ourselves for the campaigns of 1941 and 1942. . . ."

> "We have rearmed and rebuilt our armies in a degree which would have been deemed...

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