The Archive · 1940

Pestilence

French People Told to Prepare for Useful Action In Helping to Fling Off Nazi Threat to Nation London, Oct. 22. opus is for us only the beginning—we have command of the seas and in 1941 shall have command of the air," declared the Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill in a broadcast to France last night.

Ina message couched in grim invective he delivered a personal broadcast to the French people warning them of Axis plans for annihilation of France and of the British determination to cleanse Europe of the "Nazi pestilence."

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