World Battlefronts: Honor in the Lion's Den

Winston Churchill reminded the world of a military fact which even Britons have lately tended to forget. In a broadcast from the White House (see p. 13) to Britain's seldom-honored Home Guard, he said: "People who note and mark our growing mastery of the air . . . ask whether the danger of invasion has not passed away. Let me assure you of this, that until Hitler and Hitlerism are beaten into unconditional surrender the danger of invasion will never pass away."

Said Winston Churchill to the Home Guard's "nearly 2,000,000 resolute" part-time...

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