The Archive · 1940

London, Dee. 12

Mr. Winston Churchill

Prime Minister, announced in the House of Commons that British forces in the Western Desert had three Mahan i would not be surprising in the least the best part of three Italian divisions was either destroyed attired. he announced id loud cheers. "The whole Navy's policy is to ham= coastal positions cun-Uinually, white both heavy one tight ff the Mediterranean Fleet are lis een dion, with the excep oF we points, is British Imperis troops."

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