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Speeches: Non House of Commons., 12 May 1942 - 29 Nov 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/158

Scope and Contents

Cutting from "The Times", speech to Palace of Westminster Home Guard, 12 May 1942 Published Complete Speeches VI, pp.6635-36.Cuttings from the "Daily Telegraph", and "The Times", speech on the War Situation. on the steps of Leeds Town Hall, 16 May 1942 Published Complete Speeches VI, pp.6636-37 under the title "We Can Play it Rough too".Cutting from the "Sunday Express", om speech to American Army Corps, [June 1942].Typescript of speech to County of London Civil Service Battalion of the Home Guard, 10 Sep 1942 Published Complete Speeches VI, pp.6677-78.Typescript speaking notes [with annotations by WSC], and cutting from "The Times", for speech accepting Freedom of the City of Edinburgh, 12 Oct 1942 Published Complete Speeches VI, pp.6679-84, under the title "Our Greatest Glory".Typescript of message to "Yank", American Army Newspaper, 30 Oct 1942.Typescript speaking notes and draft of speech at private meeting of Coal-Owners and Miners, Central Hall, Westminster, 31 Oct 1942 Published Complete Speeches VI, pp.6687-92 under the title "We Cut the Coal".Typescript speaking notes, [with annotations by WSC and others] for speech on Victories in North Africa, Lord Mayor's Banquet, Mansion House, London, 10 Nov 1942, containing the phrase "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning" Published Complete Speeches VI, pp.6692-95, under the title "A New Experience - Victory". See CHAR 9/158/56-68.Typescript and cutting from "The Harrovian" for speech to the boys of Harrow School, 18 Nov 1942 Published Complete Speeches VI, pp.6709-10.Typescript notes for BBC broadcast on the War Situation, 29 Nov 1942, mainly on victories in North Africa Published Complete Speeches VI, pp.6710-14 under the title "The Bright Gleam of Victory".

Dates

  • Creation: 12 May 1942 - 29 Nov 1942

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

1 file(s) (1 bound file, 100 folios)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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