#180: Winston Churchill & The English Language
English Learning for Curious Minds
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Our Policy, the Most Glorious Kind
The first speech was made to parliament on the thirteenth of may 19 forty as churchill formed the new administration that would become what he called the grand coalition. He begins by repeating what he said to the new bers of his administration earlier on in the day. I have nothing to offer but blood toil, cud and ick. So i'll just repeat that again and explain it so you don't miss anything. Note also the way in which he repeats, wage war. And this repetition is completed with that contrasting final short sentence, that is our policy. Only a few weeks later, following the evacuation of british and french soldiers from dunkirk, he made another
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