Honor in the Lion's Den

Winston Churchill reminded the world of a military fact which even Britons have lately tended to forget. In a broadcast from the White House (see p. 13) to Britain's seldom-honored Home Guard, he said: "People who note and mark our growing mastery of the air . . . ask whether the danger of invasion has not passed away. Let me assure you of this, that until Hitler and Hitlerism are beaten into unconditional surrender the danger of invasion will never pass away."

Said Winston Churchill to the Home Guard's "nearly 2,000,000 resolute" part-time soldiers:

"All British war energies depend upon the unfailing defense and adequate nourishment of our small island home which lies only 21 miles from German batteries and only a few minutes' flight from their airfields. Great Britain is the advanced fighting base of the United Nations and is still under constant siege and assault by air and sea. . . . If the Nazi villains drop upon us from the skies any night, in raid or heavy attack upon key production centers, you will make it clear to them that they have not alighted in the poultry run, or in the rabbit farm, or even in the sheep fold, but that they have come down in the lion's den at the zoo."

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