Indomitable

An age had passed since the indomitable little Man with the Cigar had promised an indomitable Britain nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Visiting the Normandy beachhead this week Winston Churchill, an aging bulldog, but still a bulldog, spoke with proud, paternal informality to a group of R.A.F. men. Net of his remarks: Germany is through--but Britain isn't.

"Opposite you," he told the airmen, "is an enemy whose central power is crumbling. . . . Think how you would feel if there were a revolution at home and they were shooting at cabinet ministers. . . . There are grave signs of weakness in Germany . . . and none can measure the extent."

London was still being scourged by buzz-bombs, but Allied airpower was smiting the Germans with greater force, the Germans were close to rout on the Russian front, being mauled without letup in Italy. Even though there was a stalemate on the Normandy front it was a time for rejoicing by Britain, which had once stood alone against the Axis. It was also a time to tell the world that the British Empire was still the Empire. Said Winston Churchill:

"Britain stands today as high as she ever stood in a thousand years. She is respected in every part of the world and beloved by many. . . . We have fought for honor and we seek no reward. We seek no territory; we desire no oil fields; we seek nothing that is not our own.

"But what is our own in the Commonwealth, that we don't want any other people to express an opinion about. That we will firmly retain."

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