USA, DEFENCE: World War II: Winston Churchill speech to US Senate (1942)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Unique historic event brought to screen. Prime Minister s eloquence rouses Congress to wild enthusiasm. Full Description: I am so glad to be able to place before you, members of the Senate and of the House of representatives, at this moment when you are entering the war, the proof that with proper weapons and proper organization we are able to beat the life out of the savage Nazi. (Cheers. ) What Hitlerism is suffering in Libya is only a sample and foretaste of what we have to give him and his accomplices wherever this war should lead us in every quarter of the globe. (Applause) There are good tidings also from blue water. The lifeline of supplies which joins our two nations across the ocean, without which all would fall, that lifeline is flowing steadily and freely in spite of all that the enemy can do. It is