     The First Broadcast as Prime Minister to the British People 
    
    At the same time, our heavy bombers are striking nightly at the toproot of German mechanized power, and have already inflicted serious damage upon the oil refineries on which the Nazi effort to dominate the world directly depends.
    We must expect that as soon as stability is reached on the Western front,the bulk of that hideous apparatus--of aggression which gashed Holland into ruin and slavery in a few days will be turned upon us. I am sure I speak for all when I say we are ready to face it; to endure it; and to retaliate against it -- to any extent that the unwritten laws of war permit.
    There will be many men and many women in this island who when the ordeal comes upon them, as come it will, will feel  comfort, and even a pride, that they are sharing the perils of our lads at the front-soldiers, sailors and airmen, God bless them -- and are drawing away from them a part at least of the onslaught they have to bear.
