Blood, toil, sweat and tears
                            Winston L. S. Churchill
1.On Friday evening last I received from His Majesty the mission to form a new administration. 
2. It was the evident will of Parliament and the nation that this should be received on the broadest possible basis and that it should include all parties.　
3. I have already completed the most important part of this task. A war cabinet has been formed of five members, representing, with the Labor, Opposition and Liberals, the unity of the nation. It was necessary that this should be done in one single day, on account of the extreme urgency and rigor of events. A number of other key positions were filled yesterday, and I am submitting a further list to his Majesty tonight. I hope to complete the appointment of the principal Ministers during tomorrow. The appointment of the other Ministers usually takes a little longer, but I trust that, when Parliament meets again, this part of task will be completed, and that the administration will be complete in all respects.
4. I considered it in the public interest to suggest to the Speaker that the House should be summoned today. Mr. Speaker agreed, and took the necessary steps, in accordance with the powers conferred upon him by the Resolution of the House. At the end of the proceedings today, the adjourment of the House will be proposed until Tuesday, May 21, with provision for earlier meeting if need be. The business to be considered during that week will be notified to Members at the earliest opportunity.
5. I now invite the House by a resolution to record its approval of the steps taken and declare its confidence in the new government. The resolution:
6. “That this House welcomes the formation of a government representing the united and inflexible resolve of the nation to prosecute the war with Germany to a victorious conclusion.
submitting7. To form an administration of this scale and complexity is a serious undertaking in itself. But we are in the preliminary phase of one of the greatest battles in history. We are in action at many other points --- in Norway and in Holland --- and we have to be prepared i
n the Mediterranean. The air battle is continuing, and many preparations have to be made here at home.
8. In this crisis I think I may be pardoned if I do not address the House at any length today, and I hope that any of my friends and colleagues or former colleagues who are affected by the political reconstruction will make all allowances for my lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act.
9. I say to the House as I said to Ministers who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering.
10. You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lame table catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.
11. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs --- victory in spite of all terrors --- victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.
12. Let that be realized. No survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge, the impulse of the ages, that mankind shall move forward to ward his goal.

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