Mr. Churchill’s Speech

MR. Churchill is one of the most effective speakers in England at the present time. Years ago the late Mr. Stead welcomed Mr. Churchill as the coming man in British politics. Since then Mr. Churchill has achieved great successes and has also met with great verses. But his reputation as a speaker has suffered no eclipse. His speech at an American luncheon, brief as Reuter’s summary of it is, contains at least one fine phrase that will live side by side with “the silver bullets” of one greater than he. “Every ton of food,” he said “meant a ton of shells fired.” On the general question of peace prospects also, he spoke with his usual vigour. The abyss between our war aims and Germany’s ambition, he said, was unbridgeable at present. Unbridgeable they are bound to be, so long as Germany is under a military autocracy, though every one will agree with Mr. Lloyd George that the Allies are not and cannot be directly concerned with Germany’s internal affairs.