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| Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Editor's Preface | |
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| Young Statesman 1897-1915 | |
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| First political speech: 'The dried up drain-pipe of Radicalism', 26 July 1897, Bath | |
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| 'Escape!', 23 December 1899, Durban, South Africa | |
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| 'The anniversary of my escape', 13 December 1900, New York | |
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| Maiden speech: 'A certain splendid memory', 18 February 1901, House of Commons | |
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| Lifting again the 'tattered flag', 13 May 1901, House of Commons | |
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| 'An age of great events and little men', 21 November 1901, Liverpool | |
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| 'A navy ... to preserve the peace of the world', 17 January 1903, Oldham | |
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| 'The mere washpot of plutocracy', 4 June 1904, Alexandra Palace, London | |
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| 'For free trade', 16 June 1904, Cheetham Hill, Manchester | |
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| 'Dear food for the millions', 13 May 1905, Manchester | |
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| 'British hospitality', 9 October 1905, Cheetham Hill, Manchester | |
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| 'No more garters for dukes', 14 December 1905, Manchester | |
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| 'The gift of England', 31 July 1906, House of Commons | |
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| 'The cause of the left-out millions', 11 October 1906, Glasgow | |
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| George Bernard Shaw: 'A volcano', 22 October 1906, Free Trade Hall, Manchester | |
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| 'My African journey', 18 January 1908, National Liberal Club, London | |
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| Socialism: 'All yours is mine!', 22 January 1908, Cheetham, Manchester | |
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| The pen: 'Liberator of man and of nations', 17 February 1908, London | |
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| 'What is society?', 4 May 1908, Kinnaird Hall, Dundee | |
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| 'I am the Board of Trade', 4 February 1909, Newcastle-upon-Tyne | |
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| The Budget: 'Cannot afford to live or die', 22 May 1909, Manchester | |
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| 'A violent rupture of constitutional custom', 4 September 1909, Leicester | |
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| 'The most ancient and the most glorious monarchy', 4 December 1909, Southport | |
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| 'The upkeep of the aristocracy', 17 December 1909, Burnley, Lancs | |
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| 'For soldiers to fire on the people ...', 7 February 1911, House of Commons | |
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| Unemployment insurance, 22 May 1911, House of Commons | |
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| National rail strike, 22 August 1911, House of Commons | |
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| 'The maintenance of naval supremacy', 9 November 1911, Guildhall, London | |
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| 'Why should not Ireland have her chance?', 8 February 1912, Belfast | |
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| 'An age of incipient violence', 18 March 1912, House of Commons | |
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| 'Air power', 10 November 1913, Guildhall, London | |
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| 'Unconquerable and incomparable', 4 March 1914, London | |
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| 'The world is armed as it was never armed before', 17 March 1914, House of Commons | |
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| 'The war will be long and sombre', 11 September 1914, London | |
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| The Dardanelles, 5 June 1915, Dundee | |
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| 'Take Constantinople!', 15 November 1915, House of Commons | |
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| Oblivion and Redemption 1916-29 | |
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| 'The hardest of tests', 23 May 1916, House of Commons | |
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| 'Grappling with the most terrible foe', 31 May 1916, House of Commons | |
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| 'Perils, sorrows and sufferings', 10 December 1917, Bedford | |
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| 'The war is won!', 16 December 1918, Connaught Rooms, London | |
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| 'Bolshevist atrocities', 11 April 1919, Connaught Rooms, London | |
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| Farewell to 'the beer of Old England', 18 July 1919, London | |
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| 'The Jews should have a National Home', 31 March 1921, Jerusalem | |
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| Lenin, 8 June 1921, Manchester | |
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| 'The culture and glories of the Arab race', 14 June 1921, House of Commons | |
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| 'The dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone', 16 February 1922, House of Commons | |
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| Conservative once more, 16 September 1925, Birmingham | |
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| 'The follies of Socialism', 11 December 1925, Battersea | |
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| 'Artful Dodger!', 22 April 1926, House of Commons | |
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| 'The blushing Liberal bride', 22 October 1928, Chingford | |
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| 'A disarmament fable', 24 October 1928, Aldersbrook | |
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| The Wilderness Years 1930-39 | |
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| 'A seditious Middle Temple lawyer', 23 February 1931, Epping | |
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| 'Abandoning India', 18 March 1931, Royal Albert Hall, London | |
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| Prohibition, November/December 1931, Lecture Tour of the United States | |
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| 'Bands of sturdy Teutonic youths', 23 November 1932, House of Commons | |
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| 'Pontifical, anonymous mugwumpery', 22 February 1933, House of Commons | |
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| 'England', 24 April 1933, Royal Society of St George, London | |
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| 'Wars come very suddenly', 7 February 1934, House of Commons | |
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| 'Germany is arming', 8 March 1934, House of Commons | |
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| 'We lie within ... striking distance', 16 November 1934, Broadcast, London | |
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| 'A corridor of deepening and darkening danger', 31 May 1935, House of Commons | |
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| 'You have unsettled everything ...', 5 June 1935, House of Commons | |
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| 'I am a Treaty man', 10 July 1935, House of Commons | |
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| 'Naval security', 24 July 1935, Harlow | |
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| 'Abyssinia has been invaded', 8 October 1935, Chingford | |
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| 'Nazidom ... with all its hatreds', 24 October 1935, House of Commons | |
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| 'Germany ... fears no one', March 1936, House of Commons | |
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| The Jews: 'Their blood and race', 24 March 1936, House of Commons | |
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| 'Great hammers descending day and night', 26 March 1936, House of Commons | |
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| 'Hitler has torn up the treaties', 6 April 1936, House of Commons | |
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| 'Thank God for the French Army', 24 September 1936, Paris | |
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| Lawrence of Arabia, 3 October 1936, Oxford | |
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| 'The locust years', 12 November 1936, House of Commons | |
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| 'Approaching the most dangerous moment', 25 November 1936, London | |
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| 'The abdication of King Edward VIII', 10 December 1936, House of Commons | |
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| Rudyard Kipling, 17 November 1937, Grosvenor House, London | |
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| Austria annexed, 14 March 1938, House of Commons | |
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| 'I have watched this famous island ...', 24 March 1938, House of Commons | |
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| 'The sentinel towers of the Western approaches', 5 May 1938, House of Commons | |
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| 'Save mankind from martyrdom', 26 September 1938, London | |
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| 'A total and unmitigated defeat', 5 October 1938, House of Commons | |
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| 'The lights are going out', 16 October 1938, Broadcast to US, London | |
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| 'The bitter fruits of Munich', 14 March 1939, Waltham Abbey | |
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| 'The surge of unity and of duty', 20 April 1939, Canada Club, London | |
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| 'Repudiation of the Balfour Declaration', 23 May 1939, House of Commons | |
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| 'A hush over Europe', 8 August 1939, Broadcast to US, London | |
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| The Glory Years 1939-45 | |
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| War, 3 September 1939, House of Commons | |
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| Russia: 'A riddle, wrapped in a mystery', 1 October 1939, Broadcast, London | |
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| 'The Navy's here!', 23 February 1940, Guildhall, London | |
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| 'Blood, toil, tears and sweat', 13 May 1940, House of Commons | |
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| 'Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour!', 19 May 1940, Broadcast, London | |
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| 'Wars are not won by evacuations', 4 June 1940, House of Commons | |
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| 'The news from France is very bad', 17 June 1940, Broadcast, London | |
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| 'This was their finest hour', 18 June 1940, House of Commons | |
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| Destruction of the French Fleet, 4 July 1940, House of Commons | |
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| 'The War of the Unknown Warriors', 14 July 1940, Broadcast, London | |
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| 'The Few', 20 August 1940, House of Commons | |
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| Fifty American destroyers, 5 September 1940, House of Commons | |
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| 'These cruel, wanton ... bombings', 11 September 1940, Broadcast, London | |
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| 'We will all go down fighting to the end', 17 September 1940, House of Commons | |
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| 'We can take it!' 8 October 1940, House of Commons | |
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| 'Dieu protege la France', 21 October 1940, Broadcast, London | |
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| 'Give us the tools', 9 February 1941, Broadcast, London | |
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| 'This Battle of the Atlantic', 18 March 1941, Pilgrims' Society, London | |
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| Yugoslavia invaded, 9 April 1941, House of Commons | |
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| 'Westward look, the land is bright', 27 April 1941, Broadcast, London | |
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| Vote of Confidence, 7 May 1941, House of Commons | |
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| 'The Bismarck is sunk!', 27 May 1941, House of Commons | |
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| 'Our solid, stubborn strength', 12 June 1941, London | |
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| 'The Old Lion', 16 June 1941, Broadcast, London | |
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| Alliance with Russia, 22 June 1941, Broadcast, London | |
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| 'The grit and stamina of Londoners', 14 July 1941, County Hall, London | |
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| The Atlantic Charter, 24 August 1941, Broadcast, London | |
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| 'We are still captain of our souls', 9 September 1941, House of Commons | |
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| 'Never give in!', 29 October 1941, Harrow School | |
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| The Lend-Lease Bill, 10 November 1941, Mansion House, London | |
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| War with Japan, 8 December 1941, House of Commons | |
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| Joint Session of Congress, 26 December 1941, Washington, DC | |
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| 'Some chicken! Some neck!', 30 December 1941, Parliament, Ottawa | |
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| 'I demand a Vote of Confidence', 27 January 1942, House of Commons | |
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| 'Singapore has fallen', 15 February 1942, Broadcast, London | |
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| Prime Minister for two years, 10 May 1942, Broadcast, London | |
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| Motion of Censure, 2 July 1942, House of Commons | |
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| 'The bright gleam of victory', 10 November 1942, Mansion House, London | |
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| 'The frontiers of deliverance', 29 November 1942, World Broadcast, London | |
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| 'The Desert Army', 3 February 1943, Tripoli | |
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| Tribute to Montgomery and Alexander, 11 February 1943, House of Commons | |
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| 'Heavier work lies ahead', 19 May 1943, Congress, Washington, DC | |
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| 'We expect no reward', 30 June 1943, Guildhall, London | |
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| 'The gift of a common tongue', 6 September 1943, Harvard, Boston | |
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| 'A sense of crowd and urgency', 28 October 1943, House of Commons | |
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| 'The hour of our greatest effort', 26 March 1944, Broadcast, London | |
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| D-Day, 6 June 1944, House of Commons | |
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| 'The price in blood ... for the soil of France', 28 September 1944, House of Commons | |
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| 'Democracy is no harlot', 8 December 1944, House of Commons | |
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| 'We demand unconditional surrender', 18 January 1945, House of Commons | |
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| 'Greece forever!', 14 February 1945, Constitution Square, Athens | |
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| The Yalta Conference, 27 February 1945, House of Commons | |
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| Lloyd George, 28 March 1945, House of Commons | |
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| President Roosevelt, 17 April 1945, House of Commons | |
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| 'No words can ever express the horror', 19 April 1945, House of Commons | |
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| Victory in Europe, 8 May 1945, House of Commons and Broadcast, London | |
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| 'This is your victory', 8 May 1945, Ministry of Health, London | |
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| 'Forward, till the whole task is done', 13 May 1945, Broadcast, London | |
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| Back to party politics, 4 June 1945, Broadcast, London | |
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| General Eisenhower, 12 June 1945, Mansion House, London | |
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| 'Dear Desert Rats', 21 July 1945, Winston Club, Berlin | |
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| Resignation, 26 July 1945, 10 Downing Street | |
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| The Sunset Years 1945-63 | |
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| The atomic bomb, 6 August 1945, 10 Downing Street | |
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| Surrender of Japan, 15 August 1945, House of Commons | |
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| 'Government of the people', 16 August 1945, House of Commons | |
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| Alamein, 25 October 1945, Royal Albert Hall, London | |
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| 'We did not flinch', 31 October 1945, Harrow School | |
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| 'The unnecessary war', 16 November 1945, Belgian Parliament, Brussels | |
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| 'An Iron Curtain has descended', 5 March 1946, Fulton, Missouri | |
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| 'The tragedy of Europe', 9 May 1946, The Hague, Holland | |
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| Palestine, 1 August 1946, House of Commons | |
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| A 'United States of Europe', 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland | |
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| 'A property-owning democracy', 5 October 1946, Blackpool | |
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| The Communist menace, 24 October 1946, Loughton | |
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| Palestine: 'Blood and shame', 31 January 1947, House of Commons | |
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| 'United Europe', 14 May 1947, Royal Albert Hall, London | |
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| The rights of the British, 4 October 1947, Brighton | |
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| 'Shabby moneylenders!', 28 October 1947, House of Commons | |
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| 'Socialism is the philosophy of failure', 28 May 1948, Perth | |
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| 'When they get the atomic bomb', 9 October 1948, Llandudno, Wales | |
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| The North Atlantic Treaty, 12 May 1949, House of Commons | |
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| The Berlin Airlift, 21 July 1949, House of Commons | |
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| 'Prenez-garde! Je vais parler en francais', 12 August 1949, Strasbourg, France | |
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| 'Watch out! I am going to speak in French' (translation), 12 August 1949, Strasbourg, France | |
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| 'English literature is a glorious inheritance', 2 November 1949, London | |
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| 'Our Socialist masters', 9 February 1950, Devonport | |
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| 'An experiment in freedom', 18 May 1950, Edinburgh | |
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| 'This century of tragedy and storm', 4 July 1950, Dorchester Hotel, London | |
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| 'Renewing the glory of our island home', 21 July 1951, Woodford | |
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| 'Regain our independence', 23 October 1951, Plymouth | |
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| 'The valiant champion of freedom', 9 November 1951, Guildhall, London | |
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| 'We must not lose hope!', 17 January 1952, Congress, Washington, DC | |
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| King George VI, 7 February 1952, Broadcast, London | |
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| 'The treacherous trap-door', 11 June 1952, Savoy Hotel, London | |
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| 'The spirit of England', 23 April 1953, London, and Broadcast | |
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| 'The Crown and Parliament', 27 May 1953, St Stephen's, Westminster | |
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| 'Supreme catastrophe', 3 November 1953, House of Commons | |
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| 'A calmer and kindlier age', 9 November 1954, Guildhall, London | |
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| 'The nation ... had the lion-heart', 30 November 1954, Westminster Hall | |
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| 'Never despair!', 1 March 1955, House of Commons | |
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| 'The Queen!', 4 April 1955, 10 Downing Street | |
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| 'Let us go boldly forward', 21 June 1955, Guildhall, London | |
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| Honorary US Citizenship, 9 April 1963, The White House, Washington, DC | |
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| The Churchill Center and Societies | |
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| Index | |