The Archive · 1941

B.B.C. "Thank You"

New York, Mar. 17.

A British Broadcasting Company comment on President Roosevelt's speech, expressing Britain's "thank you" to America was picked up yesterday by the National Broadcasting "Everyone in Britain who listened to the President's speech was so filled with emotion they were unable to say more than just plain, simple, thanic you,' which would convey to the President and to the American people all the gratitude of the British people end-all the courage within themselves," BBC. said.

"They would hope to convey—also this simply—that with Winston Churchill at our end and Franklin Delano Roosevelt at yours, this sector of the Democratic front will stand, shall stand, all shocks that may have meaning to-it, and ce, as one of the ordinary people over here whom pour President so generously remembered, 1 take it on myself to say to you of the United States who have so magnificently expressed through the President and Congress your will to help us—thank you, Arerica"—United Press.

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