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: Churchill speech SOT “The onslaught upon us, so long and so secretly planned by Japan, has presented both our countries with grievous problems, for which we could not be fully prepared. “If people ask me - as they have the right to ask me in England - why is it that you have not got ample equipment of modern aircraft and weapons of all kinds in Malaya and in the East Indies, I can only point to the victory which General Auchinleck has gained in the Libyan campaign. “...The United States has been found at a disadvantage at various points in the Pacific Ocean, we know well, that is to no small extent because of the aid which you have been giving to us in munitions for the defence of the British