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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leaving Number 10 Downing Street to make a
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leaving Number 10 Downing Street to make a statement in the House of Commons on the capitulation of France during World War Two. His statement went on to be known as the Finest Hour Speech
" What General Weygand has called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be freed and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.
But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.
Standing behind Churchill is Irish politician Brendan Bracken 18th June 1940 Watscan - - 16/06/2010
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