Posted on 12/25/2003 8:50:36 AM PST by bdeaner
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:11:16 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
In the early spring of 1940, half a year after Germany invaded Poland, but during a falsely hopeful period called the phony war that preceded the major Anglo-German hostilities of World War II, Winston Churchill spoke to the House of Commons. He told them that "I will not make any prophecies about the future, which is doubly veiled by the obscurities and uncertainties of war ... We must not boast, or speak in terms of vain conceit and overconfidence ... [But] we trust in God and in our own arm uplifted in a cause which we devoutly feel carries with it the larger hopes and harmonies of mankind."
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