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How was his speech received?
Winston Churchill, Parliament Square, London © Sue Lowry & Magellan PR
January 1, 1970
Daily Express : ‘…he held a crowded house spellbound’.
Manchester Guardian: [A] ‘carefully turned speech, filled with antitheses of a literary flavour’.
Daily News: ‘Mr Churchill has many disadvantages … [he] does not inherit his father’s voice – save for a slight lisp – or his father’s manner. Address, accent, appearance do not help him’.
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