"re-released in 2011. The End of the Beginning (God Is an Astronaut album) The End of the Beginning is the first studio album by Irish post-rock band God Is an Astronaut. Its name is most likely from a famous quote by British war-leader and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in a speech about the Second Battle of El Alamein: ""Now this is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."" ""Fall from the Stars"" was used during TV3's coverage of the 2007 Rugby World Cup. The album was"
"""The End"", it concludes with ""The Beginning"". In a film made and released during the war, this was an effort to galvanize public support for the final push in the war effort , with a perhaps not unintended reference to one of Winston Churchill's famous quotations: ""This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."" In the United States, an edited version of ""The Way Ahead"", with an introduction by journalist Quentin Reynolds, was released as ""Immortal Battalion"". According to trade papers, ""The Way Ahead"" was"
"leaders who shared history. Operation Hope Not Operation Hope Not was the code-name of a funeral plan for Winston Churchill that started in 1953, twelve years before his death in 1965. The detailed plan was prepared in 1958. As Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Churchill led the country to victory in the Second World War (1939–1945). He suffered a stroke in 1953. The British government started meticulous preparation, as publicly decreed by Queen Elizabeth II of a commemoration ""on a scale befitting his position in history"". The official project was undertaken by the Earl Marshal, Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, the Duke"
"long war. Coining the general term for the upcoming battle, Churchill stated in his ""finest hour"" speech to the House of Commons on 18 June, ""I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin."" By refusing an armistice with Germany, Churchill kept resistance alive in the British Empire and created the basis for the later Allied counter-attacks of 1942–45, with Britain serving as a platform for the supply of the Soviet Union and the liberation of Western Europe. In response to previous criticisms that there had been no clear single minister in charge of the prosecution of the"
"Operation Hope Not Operation Hope Not was the code-name of a funeral plan for Winston Churchill that started in 1953, twelve years before his death in 1965. The detailed plan was prepared in 1958. As Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Churchill led the country to victory in the Second World War (1939–1945). He suffered a stroke in 1953. The British government started meticulous preparation, as publicly decreed by Queen Elizabeth II of a commemoration ""on a scale befitting his position in history"". The official project was undertaken by the Earl Marshal, Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, the Duke of Norfolk, to be"
"little campus of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. Churchill arrived on the Westminster College campus on March 5, 1946 and delivered his address. Churchill's ""Sinews of Peace"" delineated the complications and tensions of that moment in world history—less than a year after World War II and at the dawn of the Cold War. Churchill had been watching the Soviet Union with increasing concern. Churchill feared another war. ""A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory,"" he said; adding, ""whatever conclusion may be drawn from these facts…this is certainly not the liberated Europe we fought"
"This was their finest hour ""This was their finest hour"" is a speech delivered by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on 18 June 1940. It was given just over a month after he took over as Prime Minister at the head of an all-party coalition government. It was the third of three speeches which he gave during the period of the Battle of France. He justified the low level of support it had been possible to give to France since Dunkirk, and reported the successful evacuation of most of the supporting forces. He resisted"
"of the British public favoured a negotiated peace with an ascendant Germany, Churchill and a majority of his Cabinet refused to consider an armistice. Instead, Churchill used his skilful rhetoric to harden public opinion against capitulation and to prepare the British for a long war. The Battle of Britain has the unusual distinction that it gained its name before being fought. The name is derived from the ""This was their finest hour"" speech delivered by Winston Churchill in the House of Commons on 18 June, more than three weeks prior to the generally accepted date for the start of the"
"II. The quote from the 20 August 1940 speech was changed when the movie was released on DVD in 2003. Onscreen, instead of the quote about ""The Few,"" this Churchill quote appears: ""This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."" The 2004 Special Edition, however, reverts to the quotation about The Few: ""Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."" The film is generally faithful to events and, although merging some characters, it sticks to the"
"or death"" message from Hitler, halting the withdrawal. But the Allied pressure was too great, and the German forces had to withdraw on the night of 3–4 November. By 6 November the Axis forces were in full retreat and over 30,000 soldiers had surrendered. Winston Churchill famously summed up the battle on 10 November 1942 with the words ""now this is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."" The battle was Montgomery's greatest triumph. He took the title ""Viscount Montgomery of Alamein"" when he was raised"
"in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar. As the Will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be."" (1 Maccabees 3:58–60) Be ye men of valour Be Ye Men of Valour was a wartime speech made in a BBC broadcast on 19 May 1940 by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill. It was his first speech to the nation as Prime Minister, and came nine days after his appointment, in the second year of World War II. The speech concludes with a quotation from the Apocrypha, which supplies the"
"onset of the Cold War is marked by Winston Churchill's famous ""Iron Curtain"" speech. In this speech, Churchill describes the division of the West and East to be so solid that it could be called an iron curtain. In 1952, the French demographer Alfred Sauvy coined the term Third World in reference to the three estates in pre-revolutionary France. The first two estates being the nobility and clergy and everybody else comprising the third estate. He compared the capitalist world (i.e., First World) to the nobility and the communist world (i.e., Second World) to the clergy. Just as the third"
"speech at Zurich on 19 September 1946 in which he called for ""a kind of United States of Europe"" centred around a Franco-German partnership, with Britain and the Commonwealth, and perhaps the US, as ""friends and sponsors of the new Europe"". ""The Times"" wrote of him ""startling the world"" with ""outrageous propositions"" and warned that there was as yet little appetite for such unity, and that he appeared to be assuming a permanent division between Eastern and Western Europe, and urged ""more humdrum"" economic agreements. Churchill's speech was praised by Leo Amery and by Count Coudenhove-Kalergi who wrote that it"
"all over the globe. The cooperation of these two nations, he hoped, would create the ""sinews of peace."" He went on to encourage the leaders of both the United States and Britain to begin peace-talks with the Soviet Union. Churchill feared the outbreak of a new world war, especially in light of the development of nuclear weapons. ""Now war can find any nation, wherever it may dwell between dusk and dawn,"" he warned. Churchill knew all too well the devastation conventional bombs had wreaked on Britain during ""The Blitz""—a similar campaign waged with nuclear weapons would be too horrible to"
"for the RAF fighter pilots who won it. He first spoke these famous words upon his exit from No. 11 Group's underground bunker at RAF Uxbridge, now known as the Battle of Britain Bunker on 16 August 1940. One of his most memorable war speeches came on 10 November 1942 at the Lord Mayor's Luncheon at Mansion House in London, in response to the Allied victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein. Churchill stated: Without having much in the way of sustenance or good news to offer the British people, he took a risk in deliberately choosing to emphasise"
"one observer claiming that everyone looked suicidal. Only half the population expected Britain to fight on and the feelings of thousands were summed up as: This is not our war – this is a war of the high-up people who use long words and have different feelings. Therefore, when talking about the future course and conduct of the war in this speech, Churchill had to describe a great military disaster, and warn of a possible German invasion attempt, without casting doubt on eventual victory. He needed to prepare his domestic audience for France's departure from the war without in any"
"the day Winston Churchill began taunting the opposition, and in his anger Ronald McNeil hurled a copy of ""Standing Orders of the House"" at Churchill, hitting him on the head. Law refused to condemn the events, and it seems apparent that while he had played no part in organising them they ""had"" been planned by the party Whips. As party leader, he was most likely aware of the plans even if he did not actively participate. The conference was opened on 14 November 1912 by Lord Farquhar, who immediately introduced Lord Lansdowne. Lansdowne revoked the Referendum Pledge, saying that as"
"during Winston Churchill's speech of October 5, 1938 before the House of Commons in opposition to the Munich Agreement, by which France and Great Britain consented to Nazi Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland. Churchill was then a backbencher MP representing the Epping constituency. In a radio address two weeks later, Churchill again employed the term, this time applying the concept to ""a Communist or a Nazi tyranny"". The leader of the historic Spanish reactionary conservative party called the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right declared his intention to ""give Spain a true unity, a new spirit, a totalitarian polity"" and"
"Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, statesman, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to victory in the Second World War. Churchill represented five constituencies during his career as Member of Parliament (MP). Ideologically an economic liberal and British imperialist, he began and ended his parliamentary career as a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, but for twenty years from 1904 he was a"
"escape from the extreme forms of nationalism which had devastated the continent. In a speech delivered on 19 September 1946 at the University of Zürich, Switzerland, Winston Churchill postulated a United States of Europe. The same speech however contains remarks, less often quoted, which make it clear that Churchill did not initially see Britain as being part of this United States of Europe: ""We British have our own Commonwealth of Nations ... And why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and"
"other ""endings/new beginnings"" – including farewells, funerals (and other memorials of the dead), graduations, the end of a (non-New Year) party or a Scout gathering, the election of a new government, the last lowering of the Union Jack as a British colony achieves independence and even as a signal that a retail store is about to close for the day. The melody is also widely used for other words, especially hymns, the songs of sporting and other clubs, and even national anthems. In Scotland and other parts of Britain, in particular, it is associated with celebrations and memorials of Robert"
"and diplomatic context. In this speech, Churchill had to describe a great military disaster, and warn of a possible invasion attempt by the Nazis, without casting doubt on eventual victory. He also had to prepare his domestic audience for France's falling out of the war without in any way releasing France to do so, and wished to reiterate a policy and an aim unchanged – despite the intervening events – from his speech of 13 May, in which he had declared the goal of ""victory, however long and hard the road may be"". Winston Churchill took over as Prime Minister"
"nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat"" speech. One historian has called its effect on Parliament ""electrifying"". The House of Commons that had ignored him during the 1930s ""was now listening, and cheering"". Churchill followed that closely with two other equally famous speeches, given just before the Battle of Britain. One included the words: The other: At the height of the Battle of Britain, his bracing survey of the situation included the memorable line ""Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"", which engendered the enduring nickname ""The Few"""
"large scale massacres such as the Holocaust. Once again, there was a widespread desire amongst European governments to ensure it could never happen again, particularly with the war giving the world nuclear weapons and two ideologically opposed superpowers. (""See: Cold War"") In 1946, war-time British Prime Minister Winston Churchill spoke at the University of Zurich on ""The tragedy of Europe""; in which he called for a ""United States of Europe"", not including the UK, to be created on a regional level while strengthening the UN. He described the first step to a ""USE"" as a ""Council of Europe"". London would,"
"imagine. Reactions to the ""Sinews of Peace"" were mixed; some were suspicious of Churchill's proposed alliance between the United States and Britain and accused Churchill of warmongering. Others were provoked by Churchill's claim that ""there never was a war in history easier to prevent by timely action than the one which has just desolated such great areas of the globe."" ""It could have been prevented in my opinion without firing a shot…,"" he continued, ""but no one would listen and one by one we were all sucked into the awful whirlpool…."" Others lauded the speech for its prophetic qualities—particularly Churchill's"
"that Churchill was not referring to just the fighter pilots but that his remarks were intended to refer to all allied aircrew, specifically including Bomber Command. A version of the title of the speech appears in Benjamin Clementine's ""Winston Churchill`s Boy"" song. Never was so much owed by so many to so few ""Never was so much owed by so many to so few"" was a wartime speech made by the British prime minister Winston Churchill on 20 August 1940. The name stems from the specific line in the speech, ""Never in the field of human conflict was so much"
"Winston Churchill's 5th October Speech to the House of Commons Winston Churchill's 5th October 1938, Speech to the House of Commons Titled ""Policy of His Majesty's Government"", Winston Churchill foreshadows the fate of Europe after the signing of the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938. Churchill, a Conservative in the House of Commons, was strongly against Prime Minister's Neville Chamberlain's policy of Appeasement. The Munich Agreement ceded the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia to avoid an armed conflict with Hitler's Germany. The speech took place on 5 October 1938 in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Following"
"and made his voice heard on proposals which he strongly opposed. The first major issue where Churchill made his view known was whether or not to release India from British control. In a speech to the House of Commons in early March 1947, Churchill warned against handing power over to India too soon. Churchill felt that the political parties in India did not truly represent the people, and that in a few years no trace of the new government would remain. Winston Churchill was an early supporter of pan-Europeanism. In his speech at the University of Zurich in 1946, Winston"
"his assessment of the issue at hand, even though that assessment was invariably unpopular with, and unheeded by, his countrymen."" The speech is periodically interrupted by Viscountess Astor, a conservative member of parliament with strong ties to Nazism. She interjects, saying ""Nonsense"". after Churchill says, ""I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget but which must nevertheless be stated, namely, that we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat, and that France has suffered even more than we have"" While Churchill is mid-sentence, saying "" We are talking about countries which are a long way"
"it owes to Winston Spencer Churchill”. ""Never Surrender"" begins with Europe in turmoil. The date is May 10, 1940. Germany has just completed its conquest of Denmark and Norway and has turned its attack to the west by invading France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The government of the United Kingdom is in chaos. Neville Chamberlain has stepped down or been forced from the Prime Minister's office. And the man nobody really wants, the highly unpopular Winston Churchill, has been chosen to succeed him. Within days of his taking office, the Low Countries have been overrun and the mighty French"
"National Churchill Museum The National Churchill Museum (formerly the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library), located on the Westminster College campus in Fulton, Missouri, United States, commemorates the life and times of Sir Winston Churchill. In 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famous in the Westminster Historic Gymnasium. In it was the line: ""From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."" This sentence caused the oration to become known as the ""Iron Curtain"" speech. ""Sinews of Peace"" heralded the beginning of the Cold War. The National Churchill Museum comprises three distinct but"
"is yours"", and Churchill then conducted them in the singing of ""Land of Hope and Glory"". In the evening he made another broadcast to the nation asserting the defeat of Japan in the coming months. The Japanese surrendered on 15 August 1945. As Europe celebrated peace at the end of six years of war, Churchill was concerned with the possibility that the celebrations would soon be brutally interrupted. He concluded the UK and the US must anticipate the Red Army ignoring previously agreed frontiers and agreements in Europe, and prepare to ""impose upon Russia the will of the United States"
"to night attacks, hoping to terrorise the people and make them ""cry for mercy"", then die of begging.. But the people show great resilience. The British also counter-attack, bombing key German factories. Hitler takes revenge by destroying Coventry. After a brief respite at Christmas Hitler sends fire bombs to London, creating ""the greatest fire in recorded history"". More bombings and firestorms are created, but Britain's defences hold up, giving a year of precious time to other countries threatened by the Nazis. The film ends with Winston Churchill's statement that ""never in the field of human conflict has so much been"