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I am speaking to you
from the Cabinet Room...
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at 10 Downing Street.
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This morning,
the British Ambassador in Berlin...
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handed the German government
a final note...
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stating that unless we heard from them
by 1 1:00...
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that they were prepared at once
to withdraw their troops from Poland...
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a state of war would exist between us.
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I have to tell you now...
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that no such undertaking
has been received...
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and that consequently...
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this country is at war with Germany.
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The war against the Fascists in Spain
was only a rehearsal.
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The greater struggle was about to begin.
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Less than a year later...
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Poland, Norway, Holland, Belgium,
and France were overrun...
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and the Germans entered Paris.
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I doubted I would ever see her again.
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My war was in the field of intelligence.
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And early in 1944...
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I was sent to establish links
with Resistance fighters...
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based in the countryside near La Manche.
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In the late spring, I was transferred to Paris.
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Six long years had passed
since I was last there.