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Interesting and engaging manuscript by Winston Churchill as Prime Minster, upset by an NBC broadcast that minimizes the United Kingdom's importance in WWII. Upon ''Prime Minister'' 10, Downing Street letterhead, Churchill writes in ''October, 1952'' to Alexander Cadogan, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC, although this copy was given to Commodore Gordon Allen, who helped Churchill write his WWII memoir, ''The Second World War''; annotations to the document were made either by Churchill or Allen.
Churchill begins by writing that he watched the three NBC broadcasts, at NBC's request, and goes on to complain about their accuracy: ''...the submarine war, did not take sufficient account of the fact that the Royal Navy sank 104 [crossed out with 524] German U-boats compared to 14 [crossed out with 174] sunk by the United States. The commentary talks of our 'feeble' defence, but we did practically the whole work, not only of defending ourselves but of bringing in the American forces...the Landing on D-Day, gives the impression that only Americans took part in this, with occasional British units. In fact, however, we...did four-fifths of the transportation and naval bombardment, and quite a good share of the air...I think it would cause a very bad impression here if so one-sided a picture were presented to the British public...It would probably stir deep anger in British audiences...Beware, however, that great offence, with damage to British and American relations, is not done by the presentation of unfairly biassed accounts of operations in Europe and Italy...'' Two page document on two separate sheets measures 7.5'' x 9.5'', with second sheet showing the embossed initials of of the monarchy, ''E.R.''. File holes at upper left and a bit of staining to second page, otherwise near fine condition.
Winston Churchill Manuscript as Prime Minster -- Refuting an American Broadcast on the U.S.'s Importance in the WWII European Theater -- ''...we did practically the whole work...''
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