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What was Churchill referring to when he said this was their finest hour?
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∙ 14y ago
To answer that question, you need to know a little background first. That speech was given to the House of Commons when Winston first became Prime Minister at the start of WWII, and was the final of three speeches given during the Battle of France. (You'll know the other two - the fist was the 'blood, toil, tears and sweat' speech, and the other was arguably his most famous - 'we shall fight them on the beaches....we shall never surrender')
The 'Finest Hour' speech was intended to boost the morale of the people and the troops in a period that he knew would be very trying and very difficult. If you listen to the whole speech, you'll also find that Churchill is actually quoting - he says something along the lines of (can't remember it exactly) - "If we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, will fall into a dark age made more sinister by the lights of peverted science (referring there to Hitler). Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and the Commonwealth should last for a thousand years, men will still say 'This was their finest hour'."
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∙ 14y agoHe was referring to the Royal Air Force fighter pilots who defended London and the South of England from German bombers.
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