Following the Miracle at Dunkirk, British Prime Minister Win…
Following the Miracle at Dunkirk, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave an impassioned speech called where he promised that the British would fight the Nazi threat even if the British Isles were subjugated and starving. In addition to steeling the British resolve, the speech was designed to encourage the United States to get involved in the war. Churchill ended the speech by claiming the British would carry on the fight “until the New World (a.k.a. the United States) with all its power and might, comes forth to the rescue and liberation of the old.”