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on this day in September 1940 began the

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blitz of Britain primarily of London but

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spreading out across the country almost

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200,000 of our people were either killed

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or wounded mainly civilians but

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including of course heroic air crew and

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other civil defense Personnel it was 8

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months 2 weeks and three days of hell

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that Britain withstood as the price of

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standing at that time alone against

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Hitler fascism they did so under the

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leadership of Winston Churchill a man of

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many sins and not a few crimes and

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blunders but all of his sins crimes and

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blunders were

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expirated at the moment that he took the

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Helm of the British people and decided

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that we would never surrender to Fascism

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and that not until he and his fellow

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cabinet members lay on the floor in

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Downing Street choking in their own

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blood would they succumb it was an

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heroic stand if it had not been made I'd

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be speaking to you now in German the

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entire course of the history of the

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world would have been turned and turned

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for the worse in the palace Buckingham

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Palace and others in the Palace of

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Westminster in the city of London in the

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country houses of England were many who

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wanted to make a surrender peace with

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Hitler either because they sympathized

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with Hitler or because they thought the

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cause was lost but Churchill rallied the

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British people including the British

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labor movement and the working class to

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make that heroic stand against Hitler

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fascism and so on the anniversary of the

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beginning of the blitz Sputnik on

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Saturday will be interviewing Lord Alan

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Watson a Man of Distinction a historic

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of the first Rank and asking him about

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Winston Churchill about the second world

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war and Britain's glorious role in it as

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Churchill said never in the course of

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human history has so much been owed by

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so many to so few we owe them a lot and

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amongst the few is Winston

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Churchill whether we like him or not