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[00:00.31]When, a week ago today,
[00:04.37]I asked the House to fix this afternoon as the occasion for a statement,
[00:10.99]I feared it would be my hard lot
[00:13.89]to announce the greatest military disaster in our long history.
[00:20.80]I thought-and some good judges agreed with me
[00:26.19]-that perhaps 20,000 or 30,000 men might be re-embarked.
[00:31.10]But it certainly seemed that the whole of the French First Army
[00:35.13]and the whole of the British Expeditionary Force north of the Amiens-Abbeville gap
[00:44.42]would be broken up in the open field
[00:47.61]or else would have to capitulate for lack of food and ammunition.
[00:51.63]These were the hard and heavy tidings for which I called upon the House
[00:57.77]and the nation to prepare themselves a week ago.
[01:01.48]The whole root and core and brain of the British Army,
[01:08.11]on which and around which we were to build, and are to build,
[01:13.94]the great British Armies in the later years of the war,
[01:18.47]seemed about to perish upon the field
[01:21.52]or to be led into an ignominious and starving captivity.
[01:25.42]The enemy attacked on all sides with great strength and fierceness,
[01:32.78]and their main power, the power of their far more numerous Air Force,
[01:38.95]was thrown into the battle or else concentrated upon Dunkirk and the beaches.
[01:45.36]Pressing in upon the narrow exit, both from the east and from the west,
[01:52.73]the enemy began to fire with cannon upon the beaches
[01:56.48]by which alone the shipping could approach or depart.
[01:59.71]They sowed magnetic mines in the channels and seas;
[02:03.93]they sent repeated waves of hostile aircraft,
[02:07.38]sometimes more than a hundred strong in one formation,
[02:11.01]to cast their bombs upon the single pier that remained,
[02:15.79]and upon the sand dunes on which the troops had their eyes for shelter.
[02:23.26]Their U-boats, one of which was sunk,
[02:26.94]and their motor launches took their toll of the vast traffic which now began.
[02:33.44]For four or five days an intense struggle reigned.
[02:37.14]All their armored divisions-or what Was left of them
[02:41.18]together with great masses of infantry and artillery,
[02:44.53]hurled themselves in vain upon the ever-narrowing,
[02:47.74]ever-contracting appendix within which the British and French Armies fought.
[02:54.61]Meanwhile, the Royal Navy, with the willing help of countless merchant seamen,
[03:00.83]strained every nerve to embark the British and Allied troops;
[03:05.45]220 light warships and 650 other vessels were engaged.
[03:13.81]They had to operate upon the difficult coast, often in adverse weather,
[03:19.34]under an almost ceaseless hail of bombs
[03:22.53]and an increasing concentration of artillery fire.
[03:26.94]Nor were the seas, as I have said,
[03:30.43]themselves free from mines and torpedoes.
[03:32.82]It was in conditions such as these that our men carried on,
[03:38.21]with little or no rest, for days and nights on end,
[03:42.78]making trip after trip across the dangerous waters,
[03:46.93]bringing with them always men whom they had rescued.
[03:52.27]The numbers they have brought back are the measure of their devotion and their courage.
[03:58.61]The hospital ships, which brought off many thousands of British and French wounded,
[04:03.45]being so plainly marked were a special target for Nazi bombs;
[04:09.42]but the men and women on board them never faltered in their duty.
[04:13.73]Meanwhile, the Royal Air Force,
[04:16.86]which had already been intervening in the battle,
[04:21.13]so far as its range would allow, from home bases,
[04:25.84]now used part of its main metropolitan fighter strength,
[04:30.81]and struck at the German bombers and at the fighters which in large numbers protected them.
[04:39.02]This struggle was protracted and fierce.
[04:44.10]Suddenly the scene has cleared,
[04:47.10]the crash and thunder has for the moment-but only for the moment-died away.
[04:53.64]A miracle of deliverance, achieved by valor, by perseverance,
[05:00.48]by perfect discipline, by faultless service, by resource,
[05:06.48]by skill, by unconquerable fidelity, is manifest to us all.
[05:11.98]The enemy was hurled back by the retreating British troops.
[05:18.90]He was so roughly handled that he did not hurry their departure seriously.
[05:26.39]We must be very careful not to assign
[05:31.11]to this deliverance the attributes of a victory.
[05:34.94]Wars are not won by evacuations.
[05:39.38]But there was a victory inside this deliverance, which should be noted.
[05:43.58]It was gained by the Air Force.
[05:46.68]Many of our soldiers coming back have not seen the Air Force at work;
[05:52.43]they saw only the bombers which escaped its protective attack.
[05:57.21]They underrate its achievements.
[05:59.89]I have heard much talk of this;
[06:03.43]that is why I go out of my way to say this. I will tell you about it.
[06:10.32]This was a great trial of strength between the British and German Air Forces.
[06:15.93]Can you conceive a greater objective for the Germans in the air
[06:22.56]than to make evacuation from these beaches impossible,
[06:26.79]and to sink all these ships which were displayed,
[06:31.15]almost to the extent of thousands?
[06:33.89]Could there have been an objective of greater military importance
[06:38.10]and significance for the whole purpose of the war than this?
[06:41.87]They tried hard, and they were beaten back;
[06:45.50]they were frustrated in their task.
[06:48.62]We got the Army away;
[06:51.31]and they have paid fourfold for any losses which they have inflicted.
[06:58.13]When we consider how much greater would be our advantage
[07:04.57]in defending the air above this Island against an overseas attack,
[07:08.14]I must say that I find in these facts a sure basis
[07:11.67]upon which practical and reassuring thoughts may rest.
[07:15.82]I will pay my tribute to these young airmen.
[07:20.32]The great French Army was very largely,
[07:23.95]for the time being, cast back and disturbed
[07:30.38]by the onrush of a few thousands of armored vehicles.
[07:34.49]May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself
[07:41.18]will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen?
[07:47.12]There never has been, I suppose, in all the world,
[07:52.26]in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth.
[07:56.92]The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders,
[08:01.29]all fall back into the past-not only distant but prosaic;
[08:08.48]these young men, going forth every morn to guard their native land
[08:13.59]and all that we stand for, holding in their hands these instruments
[08:18.98]of colossal and shattering power, of whom it may be said that:
[08:23.90]Every morn brought forth a noble chance
[08:27.42]And every chance brought forth a noble knight,
[08:31.34]deserve our gratitude, as do all the brave men who,
[08:38.45]in so many ways and on so many occasions,
[08:41.57]are ready, and continue ready to give life and all for their native land.
[08:47.37]Nevertheless, our thankfulness at the escape of our Army
[08:54.65]and so many men, whose loved ones have passed through an agonizing week,
[08:59.49]must not blind us to the fact that what has happened in France and Belgium
[09:06.59]is a colossal military disaster.
[09:09.89]The French Army has been weakened, the Belgian Army has been lost,
[09:14.65]a large part of those fortified lines upon which
[09:17.87]so much faith had been reposed is gone,
[09:21.67]many valuable mining districts and factories have passed into the enemy’s possession,
[09:27.27]the whole of the Channel ports are in his hands,
[09:31.19]with all the tragic consequences that follow from that,
[09:35.15]and we must expect another blow to be struck almost immediately at us or at France.
[09:42.45]We are told that Herr Hitler has a plan for invading the British Isles.
[09:50.13]This has often been thought of before.
[09:52.52]When Napoleon lay at Boulogne for a year
[09:56.26]with his flat-bottomed boats and his Grand Army, he was told by someone.
[10:02.46]“There are bitter ****s in England.”
[10:06.34]There are certainly a great many more of them
[10:10.23]since the British Expeditionary Force returned.
[10:13.28]I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty,
[10:17.94]if nothing is neglected,
[10:20.14]and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made,
[10:24.51]we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our Island home,
[10:29.49]to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny,
[10:35.48]if necessary for years, if necessary alone.
[10:41.53]At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do.
[10:46.17]That is the resolve of His Majesty’s Government-every man of them.
[10:51.01]That is the will of Parliament and the nation.
[10:53.55]The British Empire and the French Republic,
[10:56.43]linked together in their cause and in their need,
[11:00.18]will defend to the death their native soil,
[11:03.56]aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.
[11:07.71]We shall go on to the end,
[11:09.92]we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
[11:15.38]we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air,
[11:20.58]we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,
[11:25.74]we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,
[11:30.45]we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills;
[11:36.25]we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe,
[11:42.99]this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving,
[11:48.52]then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet,
[11:55.58]would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World,
[12:02.29]with all its power and might,
[12:04.46]steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
[12:09.16]June 4, 1940