Our Unpaid Debt to the War Generation ; Comment [Edition 3]

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SEVENTY years ago today, at 11.15 on a warm Sunday morning, the whole country fell silent to hear the prime minister deliver the most momentous announcement ever broadcast.

That morning, said a crushed Neville Chamberlain, Britain had delivered a final note to Hitler, threatening war unless he agreed before 11 o'clock to withdraw his troops from Poland.

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Our Unpaid Debt to the War Generation ; Comment [Edition 3]

Then, the awful words: 'I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this...

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