[arderkrag]

It happened today, 71 years ago, in the House of Commons.

[CharlyFord]

Isn’t it ironic that the British Empire could survive the enemy outside the wall only to fall to the enemy (liberalism) inside the wall!

Are we capable of learning from their mistake?!

[TonyInOhio]

This address was perhaps the greatest ever given in the English tongue.

[TonyInOhio]

The Internet Archive contains a recording of excerpts of this speech, spoken after the war by the great man himself.

[SES1066]

I believe that it ABC's Howard K Smith who observed upon the death of Charles de Gaulle (1970) about the loss of the last of the WW2 leaders. If I remember correctly, one of the very intelligent points that he put forward was that these great men came to the fore in the time of great danger and it was their ability to lead that (in part) made them great.

In 1936, few of these Allied Leaders that had become household names by 1945, would have been recognized or forecast for greatness. FDR was still battling the Great Depression and losing, Churchill was in "the Wilderness" and the various generals and admirals were basically known only to their peers and troops.

Mr Smith concluded his obit (IIRC) with a warning that to see such greatness again would require much the same conditions. Of course, this was the age of the worst of Viet Nam and the national malaise would soon bring the antithesis of great leadership in President Carter and British PM Callahan.

Now we have an American President who cannot abide to have a bust of this great WW2 Allied Leader in the United States, what a world!