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...ourselves, we owe it to our Russian allies and to the Government and people of the United States, to make it absolutely clear that whether we are supported or alone, however long and hard the toil may be, the British nation and His Majesty's Government at the head of that nation in intimate concert with the governments of the great dominions, will never enter into any negotiations with Hitler or with any party in Germany which represents the Nazi regime...
Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin, who at his advent last year was widely saluted as a squarejawed, horny-handed son of toil who would assure tough, down-to-earth Governmental selfcriticism, was silent except for a two-minute talk on unemployment insurance. The only lengthy criticism was directed at Britain's tight press and radio censorship...
...like me" strikes me as very shallow thinking. A lot of fellows like him offering to work for nothing, or taking sides favoring the owners of concentrated wealth, who unlawfully refuse to bargain collectively as against the real workers who earn their bread by the sweat of their honest toil did not and never will break any depression or save our democratic country from Nazi control at home by concentrated wealth...
...Battle of the Atlantic, which is proceeding with growing intensity . . . the Battle . . . must be won not only in the factories and shipyards but upon the blue water. ... It will indeed be disastrous if the great masses of weapons, munitions and instruments of war of all kinds made with the toil and skill of American hands at the cost of the United States and loans to us under the Aid-to-Britain Bill were to sink into the depths of the ocean and never reach the hard-pressed fighting line. That would be lamentable to us, and I cannot believe...
...becoming Prime Minister: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat...