B23 · Contemporary parliamentary speech · official online transcription

Churchill on the Atlantic war

The government’s stated measure of the Atlantic struggle: imports arriving, supported by shipping construction, repair and turnaround.

Author
Winston Churchill · House of Commons
Date
7 May 1941
Passage
War Situation debate · cols.944–945

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Selected Atlantic passages read in Parliament’s Historic Hansard on 18 October 2026.

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