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L’état d’esprit de la Grande-Bretagne est sagement et justement rétif à toute forme d’exultation prématurée ou superficielle. Ce n’est pas le moment de fanfaronner ni de faire de brillantes prophéties, mais voici ce point il y a un an, notre position parai

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House of Commons, 9 September 1941

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