GREAT BRITIAN: A Pledge is Made

GREAT BRITAIN

The Churchill Government, through the voice of Sir Stafford Cripps, pledged last week that Britain would make "a carefully planned attack on the continent of Europe." That was what legions of Britons had been crying to hear. But just what "attack" meant they still did not know.

This carefully phrased pledge of a second front was made after the Government had faced two days of Parliamentary criticism. But few of Churchill's Parliamentary prosecutors last week made a noise comparable to the clamorous public demand for heavy offensive action.

One speech, however, brought some of that clamor into Parliament. It was made by...

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