Winston Churchill WWII Christmas Speech From White House 12/24/41 78 RPM Record

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This auction is for a 78 RPM record of the speech given by Winston Churchill from the White House on December 24, 1941.  This speech was given shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 when Churchill went to Washington to talk to Roosevelt and military leaders about how to defeat our common enemy.   Chruchill was broadcasting to the world from the White House on the 20th lighting of the community Christmas tree.  The record is in perfect shape and does not pop or hiss.  It is very clean and sounds great!  This is a great piece of history!! 

The speech on the record is as follows:

This is a strange Christmas Eve. Almost the whole world is locked in deadly struggle, and, with the most terrible weapons which science can devise, the nations advance upon each other. Ill would it be for us this Christmastide if we were not sure that no greed for the land or wealth of any other people, no vulgar ambition, no morbid lust for material gain at the expense of others, had led us to the field. Here, in the midst of war, raging and roaring over all the lands and seas, creeping nearer to our hearts and homes, here, amid all the tumult, we have tonight the peace of the spirit in each cottage home and in every generous heart. Therefore we may cast aside for this night at least the cares and dangers which beset us, and make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Here, then, for one night only, each home throughout the English-speaking world should be a brightly-lighted island of happiness and peace.

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world.

And so, in God's mercy, a happy Christmas to you all.

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