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We shall fight on the beaches" was a speech delivered by the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 4 June 1940. This was the second of three major speeches given around the period of the Battle of France ; the others are the " Blood, toil, tears and sweat " speech of 13 May ...
World War II poster containing the famous lines by Winston Churchill – all members of Bomber command "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" [a] was a wartime speech delivered to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by British prime minister Winston Churchill on 20 August 1940. [1]
The speech was delivered to the Commons at 3:49 pm, [7] and lasted 36 minutes. Churchill, as was his habit, made revisions to his 23-page typescript right up to and during the speech. The final passage of his typescript was laid out in blank verse format, which Churchill scholars consider reflective of the influence of the Psalms on his oratory ...
[6] Churchill's line has been called a "direct quotation" from Roosevelt's speech. [7] Churchill, a man with an American mother and a keen soldier, was likely to have read works by Theodore Roosevelt, who was a widely published military historian; it is also possible he read the speech after being appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, a ...
On the whole, the speech was extremely well-received by members of Congress [4] and the American press. [5] Churchill followed up his address with an evening screening of The Maltese Falcon, in the company of President Roosevelt and Mackenzie King, the Prime Minister of Canada. Churchill would address the Parliament of Canada four days later. [3]
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A Total and Unmitigated Defeat was a speech by Winston Churchill in the House of Commons at Westminster on Wednesday, 5 October 1938, the third day of the Munich Agreement debate. Signed five days earlier by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain , the agreement met the demands of Nazi Germany in respect of the Czechoslovak region of Sudetenland .
Churchill argued that negotiating would mean accepting Nazi domination of Europe, which he saw as morally and strategically unacceptable. He famously declared in his "We shall fight on the beaches" speech that Britain would fight on, no matter the cost. Churchill's firm stance ultimately prevailed, and Britain continued to fight.