The interesting debate on the Allied Forces gave legal sanction
to the establishment of no fewer than six foreign armies on British soil, to be trained under their own flags, under their own commanders, and under their own military law. These are the armies of Poland, Norway, Belgium, Holland, France and Czecho-Slovakia. Sir Edward Grigg, in introducing the Bill, said : " We are not fighting for British freedom alone, and therefore we are not fighting for a purely British victory," and later, " This Bill represents the inmost aspirations of at least too million human beings at present under the Nazi heel. Britain at this proud hour is no mere home for helpless refugees." Excellent. But that is why Mr. Seymour Cocks in a fine speech and Mr. Vernon Bartlett and many others inside and outside the 'House of Commons are pleading for a concerted diplomatic and propaganda offensive. Parliament must help to formulate and give shape to that offensive spirit. This is the least it can do if it is to be worthy of the men of the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, who are alone making a free Parliament and a War of Liberation possible.
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