Sherbrooke daily record, 8 décembre 1944, vendredi 8 décembre 1944

[" i\u2019hprbraokr SaÜu Hvrairii Established 1897.THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1944.WEATHER Rain *nd fleet.Forty-Eighth Year.FOREIGN POLICY DEFENDED DY CHURCHILL King Government Given vote Of Confidence Britain Will Not Tolerate Gangster Methods In Greece SHORT-CUT TO THE RHINE ENGLAND lIÉi® Churchill Defies Challenge of His Foreign Policy by Demanding for Vote of Confidence\u2014Denies British Government Broke Any Joint Agreements with U.S.on Italy and Repeats Objections to Sforza\u2014Also Defends Intervention in Belgium.London, Dec.8.\u2014 CP\u2014Prime Minister Churchill, flinging- back at his challengers a demand for a vote of confidence, declared today in the House of Commons that Britain had acted in Greece to keep gangsters out of power and had intervened in Italy because she did not trust Count Carlo Sforza.In a heated debate, Mr.Churchill denied that his government had broken any joint agreements with the United States on Italy.Mr.Churchill bluntly declared Britain would not stand for a \"gang of men from the mountains\" overthrowing constitutional authority by violence in Greece.Asserting British troops had to fight left-wingers there, he challenged: \u2018'If I am to blame for this action I will gladly accept dismissal of the House, but if I am not dismissed, make no mistake about it, we shall persist in this policy of clearing Athens and the Athens regions of all those who are rebels to the constituted authority of Greece.\u201d He repeated British ' objections to*-\u2014- Sforza by declaring: \u201cWe do not trust the man nor j would we put the slightest confidence in any government of which he is a dominant member.\" When Sforza returned to Italy from United States exile, Mr.Chur-| chill said, he pledged support to the | government of Premier Marshal | Pietro Badoglio for the duration of the armed struggle but immediately began a series of intrigues against; Badoglio.The Prime Minister stood pat on ! r.___,\t'\t_ -tv,\t! ' ijlii-ii P»» ijH: ||' 4 '¦ Amsterdam NETHERLANDS NEW SUPPLY ROUTE Bristol Ipswich Th« Hoquc Rotterdam LONDON Arnhem * Southampton Portsmouth ANTWERP Ducsscldorf Cologne f Aoehon English Channel Brussels BELGIUM Abbeville Swu Cherbourg IT Dieppe rvovre Kobicnx OLD SUPPLY ROUTE GERMANY Reims FRANCE Met- \u2022 PARIS ® Troyes Motion Supporting Liberal Government\u2019s War Effort Is Carried By 143 To 70 Votes \\Y.Neill of Comox Alberni, British rolumbia.Harry t.c.uk\u2019v.a Lib i rai Pregri-s-sive of Portags* la Pl an ie, Mali,, and K.O, Bcrlran 1 of Pris eoU, Ont, The Oppi'.ition vote thus liwludi'd [ Progi > : sivo t'on.sm vativrs who suii i ported total conscript ion and other 1 incmhi rs opposed to the limited con- Govern- Bv JAMKS MeCOOK Canadian Press Staff Writer ! Ott.\\va Dec.S.-((I1)- Prime Min jister Mackenzie» King\u2019.s feibral ad-| ministration today tiadi the assurance »T i Comm ns majority that it would support the maintemuiCd of a \u201cvigorous war effort,\u201d including the Dr dcr-in-t\u2019our.cil authorizing Defence .Miniiiivr McNaughion to #>en«l 16,000 J.seription imposed by lb 11 me Defence Army men Overseas.| nient.Tile Cn vernmuit received a voU»i Mr, Ring hud a majority within | of confidence early this morning as j hi,, own party m the final vote, I the final event of a td day .-t-ueeial i which cam» at 1 a.in.He hn»| said , Hmi: \u2022 sitting which he!: n Nov cm j pn-viously that he would not seek to ; her \u201cth 1 hi- vote was l '- '' I r tbc cany »ni unhss he hail adequate j motion moved by the Prime Mi::isler | support fnmi liis own I'ollower.s iu j and 70 against.\tj the House.lin» motion de.'huvd the lion, - Mmulitus of the Sénat»-, who al.so | w ul.l pport th»- (tiivernment a ass» inbled in Ottawa on Nnveavbor \u2022 Le Mans Contrast in size of arrows on the map above, graphically illustrates the importât'rc of the great Belgian port of Antwerp, with its 30 miles of docks, to the task of supplying Allied armies in Europe.Supply-line pitcure is further brightened by steady improve ment of rail links between Cherbourg, Be Havre, Marseille and other French ports with U.S.and BritBh battiefronts.Lone Communist Put In His Place British troops\u2019 intervention in Bel gium, also.He said the troops under orders of Gen.Eisenhower patrolled the streets of Brussels and prevented a November putsch to destroy the Pierlot government and \u201cGen.Eisenhower\u2019s decisions were absolutely right.\u201d Mr.Churchill\u2019s statement about1 London, Dec.8.\u2014®\u2014Prime Minister Churchill was obviously enjoying himself today during his historic foreign policy speech\u2014-swapping punches with his critics and in high form in exchanging quips.Only once did he seem to lose his temper for a moment when William Gallagher, the only Communist member of the House, interrupted him.Looking right a/t Mr.Gallagher, Mr.Churchill snapped: You are treated with extra- FURTHER GAINS MADE BY 8IH IN LAMONE SECTION ! Allied Units Broaden Foothold Across Saar Castel Raniero, Olmatello and Pleura Fall to British as Allies Continue to Enlarge Bridgehead on Important River.Rome, Dec.8\u2014(/Pi-British and ! fa.tton hammered his, \u2019\t.i today one and a half miles i Patton\u2019s Army Hammers Home Attack Eight Miles Deep in Saar Valley\u2014Saarbrucken Suffering Fate of Aachen, Being Ripped to Pieces by 3rd Army Long Toms and Howitzers\u2014British-Canadian Front in Holland Quiet.mu'ut.'uning a vigorous war efon.\u2018During its brvk htw.sion yestonlay the House al.so voted down t\\v.amendmeuts.and upheld Hpeak»'» J A.Glen in divlaring two o'lui amendment,?out of order.One C.C F.amendment was ac: ented bv the! IB use.The d» bat \u2022 concluded with an bn-1 pamcned appeal bv Mr.King for] support of the force Over, ( a .nd unity in the Dominion.During the last five years no ration had a finer war effort than Canada and it w>: s dei-ircd »o maintain that effort, i-aid Mr.Kmg.Only to that effort did the resolution be.fore the House relate.H»\u2018 win- not asking for any vote of eonfidi.nee on the Government\u2019s policie.genw lly.The vigorous war policy Cnuld not lie maintained without Hou,> .mp-! port.Anyone that shared hi knowledge of th