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丘吉
尔二
战经
典演
讲
：热
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和眼
泪
(1940.5.13)
Winston
Churchill
(May
13,
1940
)
On
Friday
evening
last
I
received
from
His
Majesty
the
mission
to
form
a
new
administration.
It was the
evident will of Parliament and the nation that
t
his
should
be
conceived
on
the
broadest
possible
basis
and
that
it
should include all
parties.
I
have
already
completed
the
most
important
part
of
this
task.
A
war
cabinet
has
been
formed
of
five
members,
representing,
with
the
Labor,
Opposition
and
Liberals,
the
unity
of the nation.
It was necessary that this should be
done in one single day
on account of
the extreme urgency and rigor of events. Other key
positions
were
filled
yesterday.
I
am
submitting
a
further
list
to
the
King
tonight.
I
hope
to
complete
the
appointment
of
principal Ministers during tomorrow.
The
appointment
of
other
Ministers
usually
takes
a
little
longer. I trust when Parliament meets
again this part of my task
will be
completed and that the administration will be
complete in
all respects.
I
considered
it
in
the
public
interest
to
suggest
to
the
Speaker that the House should be
summoned today. At the end
of
today's
proceedings,
the
adjournment
of
the
House
will
be
proposed
until May 2l with provision for earlier meeting
if need
be.
Business
for
that
will
be
notified
to
M.
P.
's
at
the
earliest
opportunity.
I now invite the House by a resolution
to record its approval
of
the
steps
taken
and
declare
its
confidence
in
the
new
government. The
resolution:
this
House
welcomes
the
formation
of
a
government
representing
the
united
and
inflexible
resolve
of
the
nation
to
prosecute the war with
Germany to a victorious conclusion.
To
form
an
administration
of
this
scale
and
complexity
is
a
serious undertaking in itself. But we
are in the preliminary Phase
of one of
the greatest battles in history. We are in action
at any
other
points-in
Norway
and
in
Holland-and
we
have
to
be
prepared in the Mediterranean. The air
battle is continuing, and
many
preparations have to be made here at home.
In this crisis I think I may be
pardoned if I do not address the
House
at any length today, and I hope that any of my
friends and
colleagues
or
for
mer
colleagues
who
are
affected
by
the
political
reconstruction
will
make
all
allowances
for
any
lack
of
ceremony with which it has been
necessary to act.
I
say to the House as I said to Ministers who have
joined this
government,
I
have
nothing
to
offer
but
blood,
toil,
tears
and
sweat.
We
have
before
us
an
ordeal
of
the
most
grievous
kind.
We have before us
many, many months of struggle and
suffering.
You
ask,
what
is
our
policy?
I
say
it
is
to
wage
war
by
land,
sea and
air. War with all our might and with all the
strength God
has given us, and to wage
war against a monstrous tyranny never