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in this grave power perhaps the most fat in our history I send to every household of my

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her peoples both at home and overseas this message spoken with the same depth of feeling

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spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you for each one of you as if I were able to cross

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as if I were able to cross your threshold your threshold and speak to you and speak to you myself

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myself [Music] [Music] for the second time in the lives of most for the second time in the lives of most of us we are

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of us we are at at at War at War [Music] [Music] over and over over and over again

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again we have tried we have tried to find a peaceful a way out a way out of the differences

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of the differences between ourselves between ourselves and those and those who are now

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who are now our our enemies enemies [Music] [Music] but it has been but it has been in vain

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in vain we have been forced into a conflict we have been forced into a conflict for we are called to meet the challenge

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for we are called to meet the challenge of a principle of a principle which if it were to Prevail would be

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which if it were to Prevail would be fatal to any civilized order fatal to any civilized order in the world

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in the world such a principle such a principle a stript of all disguise a stript of all disguise is surely

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is surely the mere primitive doctrine that might is right for the sake of all that we ourselves

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for the sake of all that we ourselves oh dear oh dear it is Unthinkable it is Unthinkable that we should refuse

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that we should refuse to meet to meet the challenge it is to this High purpose that I now call

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call my people at home and my people's across my people at home and my people's across the seas who will make our cause their

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the seas who will make our cause their own own I ask them to stand calm I ask them to stand calm and firm

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and firm and United in this time of trial and United in this time of trial the task will be hard

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the task will be hard there may be dark days ahead and War there may be dark days ahead and War can no longer be confined

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can no longer be confined to the battlefield to the battlefield but we can only do the right

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but we can only do the right as we see the right as we see the right and reverently

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and reverently commit our cause to God if one and all if one and all we keep we keep resolutely

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resolutely faithful faithful to it then to it then with God's help with God's help we shall

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we shall prevail

The King's Speech - Wartime Address

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