1940-10-21_BBC_Winston_Churchill_Pledge_To_Free_France

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Frenchmen for more than thirty years, in peace and war,
I have marched with you, and I'm marching still along
the same road tonight. I speak to you at your firesides,

(00:25):
wherever you may be. Now, whatever your fortunes are, I
repeat the prayer around the red or your pertee la France.
God protects France. If you are retain in England under

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the fire of the bush, we donnot forget the ties
and eat that unite us to France. And we are
persevering seat to stay and in good heart in the
cause of European freedom and their dealing for the common

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people of all countries, for which with you wedre the thord.
When good people get into trouble because they are attacked
and heavily slitten by the vile and wicked, they must
be very careful not to get a bloggerheads with one another.

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The common enemy is always trying to bring us about,
and the course in bad luck a lot is didn't happen,
It's pour into the enemy's hand. Well, let's just make
the best of things as they come along. If you're
in London with hair, Hitler says he will reduce to ashes,

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and which the hair aplanes are now bombarding. Our people
are bearing up unstinting. Our air force has more than
held it down. We are waiting for the long promised invasion.
So are the Pistes that, of course this p us

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It's only the beginning. Now in nineteen forty in spite
of occasional losses, we have as ever the command of
the sea. In nineteen forty one he shall have the
command of the air. Remember what that means here Hipler

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Williams can and other mechanical weapons, and also by fifth
column in Tree with traitors as managed to subjugate for
the time being most of the finest races in Europe.
And his little lattalion a company's cutting along hopefully and hungrily,

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but rather wearily and very tillygray at each side. They
both wish Chicago, France and our empire. And if it
were a foul to one a leege to another ring,
or perhaps part of the breast, not only the French

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Empire will be devoured by these two ugly customers, but
outside Lorraine will go once again under the German yoke,
and Nith Savoy and Corsica, Napoleon Corsica will be torn
from the fair rome of France. But he hits not

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thinking only of stealing other people's territories or flinging gobbets
of them to his little considerate I tell you truly
what you must believe. But I say this evil man
is monstrous, abortion of hatred and defeat. It was no done,

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nothing less than the complete wiping out of the French
nations and the disintegration of his whole life and future
by all kinds of fly and savage means. He's flocking
and working to quench forever the fountain of characteristic French
culture and French inspirations to the world. All Europe, if

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he has his way, will be reduced to one uniform
bush land to be exploited, pillaged and bullied by his
Nazi against. You will excuse my speaking Francis, because this
is not a time to meant words. It is not defeat.

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It trans through now to make the safare German ends,
but the doom of complete or brutalis army, navy, the airport, religion, laws, language,
culture institutions, literature, history, traditions, all are to be a

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case by the brute strength of a triumphant DOMI and
the scientifical low cunning of a ruthless peace fort Frenchman,
the arm your spirits before it is too late. Remember
how Napoleon said before one of his battles the same

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fashion to our soul. Both for today we're three to
one at Jenna and six to one that mommy arrives.
Never will I believe that the soul of France is dead.
Never will I believe that that placed among the greatest
nations of the world had been lost forever. All these

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schemes and crime of their Hitler are bringing upon him
and upon all who belongs to stem a retribution. Like
many of us will live to see. This story is
not your finish, but it will not be so long.

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We are on his track, and so are our friends
across the Atlantic Ocean and your friends across the Atlantic Ocean.
If he cannot destroy us, we will surely destroy him
and all his gang and all their work. Therefore, have

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hope and faith, but all will come right now. What
do you think we business asked of you in this present,
hard and bitter time. What we asked at this moment
did our struggles and in the victory which we will

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share with you, is that if you cannot help it,
at least we will not kindle it. Presently you will
be able to wait the arm but strikes for you,
and you ought to do so. But even now we've
trust the Frenchmen, wherever they may be. We'll feel their

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hearts warm and the proud blood dingle in their veins.
When we have some success in the air or on
the tea, or presently or best will come upon the land.
Remember we shall never stop, never wear it, and never

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give in. And that our whole people and empire about
themselves to the tarts of cleansing Europe from the Nazi
testilence and saving the world from the new dark ages.
Do not imagine, as the German controlled wireless tells you,

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that we English seek to take your ship and colonies.
We seek to beat the life and soul out of
Hitler and Hplarism. That alone, that all the time, that
to the end we do not tune it anything from
any age. They check their respects. Those Frenchmen who are

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in the French Empire and those who are in so
called unoccupied France may see their way from time to
time to use for action. I will not go into detail.
Hostilias are listening as for those whom English hearts go

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out in fool, because they see them under the sharp discipline,
oppression and spying of the Huns. And to those Frenchmen
in the occupied regions, to them might say, when they
think of the future, let them remember the words which

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them better that great frenchmen at said up eighteen seventy
about the future of France and what was to come.
Think of it, always speak of it. Never good night.

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Then sleep together strength for the morning, For the morning
will come brightly, will it shine and cool kindly? Not
all who suffer for the goud, glorious upon the rooms
of girls, Thus will shine the dawn. Dave la France.

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Long live also the forward march of the common people
in all the land, towards their just and true inheritance,
and towards the broader and full age