CHURCHILL'S REACTION TO HITLER'S REPLY TO ROOSEVELT'S PEACE PROPOSAL (RADIO)
Summary
British statesman Winston S. Churchill, former war minister and current House of Commons member, delivers a speech from Chartwell, his residence in Westerham in Kent, England, on German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's reaction to U.S President Franklin D. Roosevelt's plea for peace on April 28, 1939. (Hitler's speech, addressed to the Reichstag, denied that Germany desires war, or that the country has designs on its "weak neighbors." Hitler then made a twenty-one point analysis of the president's message, countering many of Roosevelt's sentiments.)
Churchill addresses the following topics, among others: whether Hitler intends to invade Poland; how Europe's peace-seeking powers should react; Germany's negative reaction to the Treaty of Versailles; and "the sovereign hope of the British, French, and American democracies for what will happen in the end."
(This speech originally aired on the BBC.)
Details
- NETWORK: NBC Red Network
- DATE: April 28, 1939 6:45 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:12:00
- COLOR/B&W: N/A
- CATALOG ID: R85:0274
- GENRE: Radio - Talk/Interviews
- SUBJECT HEADING: Great Britain - Foreign relations - Germany; World War II - 1939
- SERIES RUN: NBC - Radio, 1939
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Winston Churchill … Speaker
- Adolf Hitler
- Franklin D. Roosevelt