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: Winston Churchill speech to Senate SOT - I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my father’s house to believe in democracy. “Trust the people,“ that was his message. I used to see him cheered at meetings and in the streets by crowds of working men way back in those aristocratic Victorian days when, as Disraeli said, the world was for the few, and for the very few. “Therefore, I have been in full harmony all my life with the tides which have flowed on both sides of the Atlantic against privilege and monopoly, and I have steered confidently towards the Gettysburg ideal of “the Government of the people, by the people, for the people.“ (CHEERS AND APPLAUSE.) “I owe my advancement