on this day in September 1940 began the
blitz of Britain primarily of London but
spreading out across the country almost
200,000 of our people were either killed
or wounded mainly civilians but
including of course heroic air crew and
other civil defense Personnel it was 8
months 2 weeks and three days of hell
that Britain withstood as the price of
standing at that time alone against
Hitler fascism they did so under the
leadership of Winston Churchill a man of
many sins and not a few crimes and
blunders but all of his sins crimes and
blunders were
expirated at the moment that he took the
Helm of the British people and decided
that we would never surrender to Fascism
and that not until he and his fellow
cabinet members lay on the floor in
Downing Street choking in their own
blood would they succumb it was an
heroic stand if it had not been made I'd
be speaking to you now in German the
entire course of the history of the
world would have been turned and turned
for the worse in the palace Buckingham
Palace and others in the Palace of
Westminster in the city of London in the
country houses of England were many who
wanted to make a surrender peace with
Hitler either because they sympathized
with Hitler or because they thought the
cause was lost but Churchill rallied the
British people including the British
labor movement and the working class to
make that heroic stand against Hitler
fascism and so on the anniversary of the
beginning of the blitz Sputnik on
Saturday will be interviewing Lord Alan
Watson a Man of Distinction a historic
of the first Rank and asking him about
Winston Churchill about the second world
war and Britain's glorious role in it as
Churchill said never in the course of
human history has so much been owed by
so many to so few we owe them a lot and
amongst the few is Winston
Churchill whether we like him or not