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23 Churchills Addresses Italians

News reports 01 · 1940 · 17 min · 1,497 words

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There is the BBC of service. Before I read the news, unless my husband here is a Prime Minister. He is always being re-naged about the Empire and the United States of America. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Churchill, I thank you to the Italian people, and I speak to you from the heart of the British Islands,

and of the British Commonwealth and Empire. I see you, what an accommodate score, words of great truth and respect, wired war, that is a great strain and terrible force. So very much, until the last few million years, that the British and Italian nations would be trying to destroy one another.

We have always been such friends, the champions of the Italian resorting mister. We were the party-tans of Garibaldi. We were the admirers of Mazzidi and Cabua. Great movement towards the unity of the Italian nation, which lighted the 19th century, went 80s, and was hailed as the British Parliament, had British families.

And our grandfathers long to see Italy free from the Austrian yoke. And to see old minor barriers in Italy swept away so that the Italian people and their fair land had one of the leading powers up in the continent.

And as a brilliant and gifted member of the family of Europe and the freedom. We have never been your first. We may have come, but 15 years after that war we were your friends. All the institutions which you adopted after that war were not akin to ours and diverged as we think.

From the sovereign impulses which had commanded unity, obviously, we could still walk together in peace and goodwill. Many a thousand of your people, self-worth hours in England, for our people, most with you, in Italy.

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