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THESE were the keynotes of the address broadcast by the King on September 23. The nation is now united as never before, united in both work and suffering: “we are a nation on guard and in the line. Each task, each bit of duty done, however simple and domestic it may be, is part of our war work.” The British peoples entered the War a little more than a year ago, with the knowledge that they were opposing a formidable foe, but confident in the justice of their cause. Since then, “Great nations have fallen. The battle, which was at that time so far away that we could only just hear its distant rumblings, is now at our very doors. The armies of invasion are massed across the Channel, only twenty miles from our shores. The air fleets of the enemy launch their attacks, day and night, against our cities. We stand in the front line, to champion those liberties and traditions that are our heritage.”
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Unity and Resolution. Nature 146, 425 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146425a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146425a0