Mr. Speaker I

Asked the house to fix this afternoon

at the occasion for a statement [I]

Feared it would be my hard lot

to announce

the greatest military

disaster in Our Long History [I]

I thought and

Some good Gadget agreed with me

The draft Twenty or Thirty thousand men might be reembarked

but it suddenly [seems] as the whole of the french first army and

the whole of the British expeditionary Force

North of the Amia

Advil yet

Would be broken up in the open field or else would have to capitulate for lack of food and ammunition

These were the hard and heavy tidings

Which I call [above] the house and the nations to prepare themselves that week ago

The whole route [length] [Corps] and brain as a program is on which and around which

We were to build and are to build

the Great British armies in the later years of the war

seemed about to perish upon the field or be led into an ignominious and

Starving captivity

the enemy attacked us on all sides with great strength and justice and

our main power

The part of the far more numerous Air Force was thrown into the battle or else

concentrated upon Dunkirk and the beaches

pressing in upon the narrow exit

both from the East and from the West

The enemy began to fire with Cannon upon the beaches by which alone the shipping could approach or Depart.

They so Magnetic mines in the channels and seas

It sent repeated waves of hostile aircraft

sometimes more [than] a hundred strong in one formation

to craft our bombs from the single pellet remain and if in the sand Dunes

On which the troops had the only shelter

their U-Boats one of which were sunk and [the] Mogollon trees took the toll of

the vast traffic which now began

For four or five days an intense struggle rained all their armored divisions or what was left of them

together with great masses of infantry and artillery

[hurled] themselves in vain from the ever narrowing away contracting appendix

Within which the British and French armies fought

Meanwhile the Royal Navy

was a willing help of countless Merchant Seamen

strained every nerve to Embark the British and allied Troops

220 Lights warships and

[650] other vessels were engaged

They had to operate [it] from the difficult coast

Often in adverse weather and an almost ceaseless hail of bombs and an increasing

concentration of artillery fire

Nor were the seas as I've said themselves free from mines and torpedoes

It was in conditions such as these

As I'm in carried on was little or no rest

the days and nights on end making

Trip after trip across the dangerous waters

bringing wisdom

Always Men who made rescue

The numbers [they're] brought back other measure of [their] devotion

and the courage

The hospital ships which brought off many thousands of British and French wounded being so plainly marked

Where a special target for naughty bombers, but the men and women on board them the never falters in their duty?

Meanwhile the Royal Air Force

which had already been

Intervening in the battle and fought the train would allow

From our home bases

now use part of its main Metropolitan [fighter] [straits] and

struck at the German bombers and at the fighters which in large numbers protected

This [struggle] [would] protracted and Fierce

Suddenly the pigeons guard

the crashing [Thunder] and strew the moment that only was a moment tide away a

miracle of deliverance

achieved by Valor by Perseverance by perfect discipline by Faultless service

Irish lost by skill by unconquerable fidelity it manifested to us all

the enemy

Which fell back as a retreating British troops?

They were so roughly handled that he is not [carries] our departure

seriously

Sir, we must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance

the attributes of a victory

Wars are not won by evacuation

But there was a victory inside this deliverance which will be noted he could gain by the [Air] [force]

Many of our soldiers coming back have not seen the [Air] [Force's] work

They so only the bombers which escaped its protective attack

They underrated the treatments

I've heard much talk of this

That is why I go out of my way to say this I

Will tell you about it. This was a great trial of strengths between the british and German Air force

Can you can see a greater objective for the German in the air?

[meant] to make evacuations from these [beeches impossible and

To think all these ships which was it [stayed] almost to the extent of thousand

Could I have been an objective and greater military importance and significance?

for the whole purpose of the walls of this

They tried hard, and they were beaten back. They were frustrated in the task

We got the army away, and they have paid for cold

for any losses

Which they have been written?

So when we consider how much greater would be our advantage in defending the Air above the [size] [of] the infant overseas attack?

And I'll say that I find in the tractor shrug basis upon which practical and reassuring thoughts nearest I

would pay my tribute [diseased] young [Haman]

the great French Army which very largely

for the time being

tossed back and

Disturbed for the on Russia [or] to thousands of armored vehicles

may it not also be that the cause of

Civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of [a] few thousand down

There never has been I suppose in all the world

In all the history of war such [an] opportunity for use

the knights of the round Table

the Crusaders all fall back into the past

Not early

distance

but per day

These young men growing forth every morn to guard their native land and all that we stand for

Holding in their hands

these instruments of colossal shattering power a

limit may be said that every morn brought forth or no [Trance] and

every Transcript for the Noble Knight

Deserve our gratitude

Yes to all the brave men

In so many ways and on so many occasions

Are ready and continue ready give life and all their native land

nevertheless

Thankfulness at the escape of our army and so many men who [have] run to pass to an agonizing [weak]

but not blind us to the fact that what happens in France and

Belgium it's a colossal military disaster

the French Army has been weakened the Belgian army has been lost a

Large part of those 40 guidelines a little bit so much faith has been reposed. He's gone

Many valuable mining districts and factories across into the enemy's protection

Over the channel ports [my] hands. There's all the tragic consequences [that] follow from that

And we must expect another blow to be struck almost immediately at us or a [trompe]

We are told sir. That's how hitler and to plan for invading the British isles

[this] is [awful] [being] thought of before

When Napoleon Led boulogne for a year [visit] [fat-bottomed] [books] and his grand army?

he was told by someone that

Are bitter we'd hit England?

They are certainly a great many more of them since the British expeditionary force returned

So I have myself full confidence that you go to educate

If nothing is neglected and if the best arrangements are [made] as they are being made we should prove ourselves

Once more able to defend our island home

To ride out the [storm] of war and to our the menace of Tyranny

if necessary videos

explicitly alone

At any rate that is what we're going [to] try to do

[then] is [resolve] his majesty's government

every Manner

That is a will of parliament in the nation the [British] [Empire] [and] the French republic

linked together in their code and in our need

Will defend to the death penaity soil aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost to their [strength]

We shall go [on] to the end?

We shall fight in France

[which] [will] fight on the seas and oceans

We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air

We shall defend our island. Whatever the cost may be

We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds

We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We [shall] fight in the hills

We shall never surrender

[and] if

Which I do not for a moment believe

This island or large part of it when subjugated and starving in our empire

Beyond the Seas

Armed and guarded by the beliefs which would carry on the struggle

until in God's good time

The new World was all its power [might] steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old

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