t to the world when the invading forces rolled into Russia. u The speech was posed, full of grave themes and weighty arguments. u Churchill polished the text on June 22, 1941 in his Elizabethan manor at Chequers. British politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom u Full name : u Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill u (1874-1965) u His names testify to the richness of his historic inheritance: u Winston, after the Royalist family with whom the Churchill married before the English Civil War; u Leonard, after his remarkable grandfather, Leonard Jerome of New York; u Spencer, the married name of a daughter of the 1st duke of Marlborough, from whom the family descended; u Churchill , the family name of the 1st duke, which his descendents resumed after the Battle of Waterloo.
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