1941-06-16_BBC_Winston_Churchill_Broadcast_To_America

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
For more than a year, we British have stood alone,
uplifted by your sympathy and respect, sustain'd by our own
unconquerable will power, and by the increasing growth and hopes
of your mass evade. In these British islands that look

(00:25):
so small upon the mare, we stand the faithful guardians
of the rights and dearest hopes of a dozen states
and nations, now gripp'd and tormented in a base and
cruell servitude. Whatever happens, we shall endure to the end.

(00:52):
But what is the explanation of the enslavement of Europe
by the German Nazi regime? How did they do it?
It is but a few years ago since one united
gesture by the people's great and small, who now lie
broken in the dust, would have warded off from mankind

(01:16):
the fearful ordele it has had to undergo. But there
was no unity, there was no vision. The nations were
pulled out one by one, while the others gaped and
chattered one by one. Each in his turn. They left
themselves be caught one after another. They were felled by

(01:38):
brutal violence, or pointing from within, by subtle intrigue. Now
the old lion with a lion cubs at her side,
stands alone against hunters who are armed with deadly weapons
and impelled by desperate and dist debrage. Is the tragedy

(02:03):
to repeat itself once more? Ah No, this is not
the end of the tale. The stars, in their courses
proclaim the deliverance of mankind. Not so easily shall the
onward progress of the people's be barred, Not so easily

(02:25):
shall the lights of freedom die. But but time is short.
Every month that passes adds to the length and to
the perils of the journey that will have to be made. United.
We stand divided, we fall divided, the dark ages return. United,

(02:54):
we can save and guide the world.