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Statement by Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill in the House of Commons on the 27th February, 1940: Navy...

Statement by Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill in the House of Commons on the 27th February, 1940: Navy Estimates

by Churchill, Winston

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Churchill, Winston. Navy Estimates: Statement by Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill in the House of Commons on the 27th February, 1940. London: H.M. Stationery Office Press, 1940. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto pamphlet (9 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches; 250 x 162 mm), 8 pages, in stapled wrappers. A scarce pamphlet presenting a statement by Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, asking Parliament to grant more money to the Navy to meet the threat from Nazi Germany. He says it would not be prudent to give exact numbers in public. But he does expect a significant escalation in hostilities: "We must clearly expect that attacks will be delivered upon the sea-power by which we live, on which all depends, on a far greater scale than anything we have so far beaten back and beaten down."Churchill also discloses, apparently for the first time, that a battleship torpedoed a few months earlier was the Barham and that the battleship Nelson had been damaged by magnetic mines. He goes on to say that the… Read More
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