📝 I came across this whilst researching a little of Winston #Churchill's #speeches, and found it interesting and entertaining, so thought I'd share it here with fellow #Mastodon'ians
Mark Francois talks about Neville Chamberlain "denuding the British forces of funding until it was too late."
This is wrong. Even while Chamberlain was signing the Munich Agreement in 1938, he was agreeing to a huge increase in spending to increase Britain’s armament in preparation for war.
In WW2, the movement of millions of American troops to Britain, known as the “friendly invasion,” brought to light stark differences concerning racial segregation. Many Britons struggled to understand or accept the institutionalized discrimination that Black soldiers faced in White America, leading to tensions between the two allied nations on the matter of civil rights.
This pragmatic approach masked a substantial difference of opinion at #cabinet level with #winstonchurchill favouring full compliance with segregation but encountering strong opposition from most of his colleagues.
#OnThisDay, May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill said, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" in his first speech as Prime Minister to the British House of Commons (depicted in Darkest Hour, 2017)