LE May 8, 1945, Churchill delivered four speeches. Not bad for a day which was declared a holiday in England. The day before, when Captain Pim had set him the telegram announcing that the capitulation in good and due form had been signed at 2:41 am in Reims at Eisenhower HQ, he replied: “You generally brought me bad news, but there, you bought yourself by bringing me the biggest and most expected war of the war. »»
After working in the morning in bed, Churchill goes to have lunch with King George VI with whom he discusses the speech that the sovereign will address to the English at 6 p.m. Then he returns to Downing Street. Before going to pronounce himself, at 3 p.m., his first speech, on the radio, he would like to thank all his team …
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