What a Word of Encouragement Meant to Churchill

 What a Word of Encouragement Meant to Churchill

Winston Churchill led the British people through the desperate challenges of World war II. He constantly told them that they must "never, never, never give up." In one speech he used the word "never" seven times! as he pounded his fist to reinforce his message.

But their chances of holding out against the German onslaught began to shrink.

FDR's right-hand man, Harry Hopkins, joined him one night. Churchill pleaded for news from Roosevelt.

"Here's what Roosevelt says," Hopkins began. "Whither you go, I will go; whither you lodge, I will lodge; your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you will die, I will die and there will I be buried.....with you even to the end."  (From the Book of Ruth)

And Winston Churchill began to weep, sobbing, "There is hope."

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