Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill18 February 1940
Speaks at the Guildhall praising the warships opposing the Graf Spee
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Speaks at the Guildhall praising the warships opposing the Graf Spee
"We shall fight on the beaches...... we shall never surrender"
Churchill says in a speech, "Give us the tools and we will finish the job"
"it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is perhaps the end of the beginning"
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