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Applause for Churchill

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Associated Press
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Date

1952-01-17

Maker

Associated Press Wirephoto

Dimensions

8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)

Accession Number

PA2011.07.0019

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

On January 17, 1952, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill addressed a Joint Meeting of Congress for the third time in his career. Telling the assembled Members that “I have come here to ask not for gold but for steel, not for favors but for equipment,” Churchill pledged Britain’s support to General Dwight D. Eisenhower and vowed to help defend Western Europe against Communist encroachment. Churchill also pleaded with Congress to keep the atomic bomb in its arsenal and to refuse to disarm before peace was ensured.

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