Mr. Speaker in a disastrous military events which have happened during the past fortnight have not
Come to me with any sense of surprise
Indeed I indicated a fortnight ago
[encouraged] I could to the house
The worst possibility group and I made it perfectly clear that whatever happened in France
Would make no difference to the result of Britain and the British Empire to fight on
if necessary for years
if necessary alone
I have thought it right to upon this occasion to give the house and the country some indication of the solid practical grounds
upon which we base our
inflexible resolve to continue the war
there are good many people who say
Nevermind. [we] [know] whose seekers who better dies and submit to Tyranny and such a theory?
And I do not disassociate myself from them
But I can assure them that our professional advisers of the three services
Unitedly advise that we should carry on the war and that there are good and reasonable oaks of Final victory
We have fully informed and consulted all the self-governing dominion
These great communities Far Beyond the oceans
Who have been built up on our laws and on our
Civilization and you [are] absolutely free [to] choose their course
but are
Absolutely devoted to the ancient Motherland and you feel themselves inspired by the same emotions
Which lead me to stake our all?
Upon Duty and Honor
We do not yet know. What will happen in from?
now whether the French resistance will be prolonged well in France and in the
with ease
the British government were whispering away great opportunities and
casting adrift their future if they do not continue the war in accordance for that treaty obligation
From which we have not felt able to release
The I should have read the historic declaration
in which the desire of many
Frenchmen
And of our own hearts we have retained our willingness at the darkest hour in French history
to Conclude a
Union of common citizenship in this struggle
However matters may go in France over the French government or other French governments
We in this island and in the British Empire
Will never lose our sense of comradeship with the french people?
if we are now called upon to enjoy what they have been suffering we [shall] emulate their courage and
if final victory reward not toils they should share the gains I [and]
freedom Shall be restored to all we hate nothing about just about
Not one jot or tittle do we receive Czechs, Poles,
Norwegian, Dutch,
Belgians who joined according to our own?
All these shall be restored, but general they Gonna call the battle of france
You know,
I expected the battle of Britain is about to begin
Upon this battle depends on survival of Christians [the] [designing]
Upon it depends our own British life and
The long continuity of our institutions and our empire
No
[Kurian] might of the enemy was very soon returned on us
[each] [one] [knows] [that] [he] would have to break us in this island [only] so if we can stand up to him
all Europe
every
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 likes of
Pathetic science
Let us therefore Brace ourselves to our duties
And so [bear] ourselves
that if the British Empire and it's commonwealth
lasts for a thousand years men will still say
This was their finest hour
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