The Archive · 1940

Rousing Cheers for Leaders

Cheers rang through the House of [Commons s Mr. Winston Churchill entered to meet Parliament for the fist time as Prime Minister. Mr.

Neville' Chamberlain entered the Mr, Churchill, rising to address the House. was' again received with cheers.

"On Friday evening last" he said, "1 received his Majesty's commission to form a new administration. Tt was the evident wish and. will of Parlin ment and the nation that this should bbe conceived on the broadest possible Basic, and that it should include the parties both of the House which sup-Ported the late government and also parties of the Opposition.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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