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Winston Churchill's first wartime broadcast 1 October 1939
On 1 October 1939 Winston Churchill gave his first wartime broadcast, on the recently created Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Service. Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, delivered his assessment of the first month of hostilities. He did not like the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ - which had defied the government to carry statements from strike leaders during the 1926 general Strike - and had only broadcast infrequently before the war. However, he understood the power radio gave him to speak to the nation.
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