She warned him not to include it in his speech. The language would be seen as an incendiary attack on the institutions of the nation.
But he was stubborn and felt his instincts, which had been right when so many others’ had been wrong, were true.
So Winston Churchill, on June 4, 1945, ignored the importuning of his wife, Clementine, and harshly criticized the Labour and Socialist parties of the United Kingdom in a campaign speech.
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