    The First Broadcast as Prime Minister to the British People
    
    Is not this the appointed time for all to make the utmost exertions in their power? If the battle is to be won, we must provide our men with ever-increasing quantities of the weapons and ammunition they need. We must have, and have quickly, more aeroplanes, more tanks, more shells, and more guns. There is imperious need for these vital munitions. They increase our strength against the powerfully armed enemy.
    They replace the wastage of the obstinate struggle; and the knowledge that wastage will speedily be replaced enables us to draw more readily upon our reserve and throw them in now that everything counts so much.
    Our task is not only to win the battle -- but also to win the war. After this battle in France abates its force, there will come the battle for our islands -- for all Britain is, and all that Britain means. That will be the struggle.
    In that supreme emergency we shall not hesitate to take every step, even the most drastic, to call forth from our people the last ounce and the last inch of effort of which they are capable.
    The interests of property, the hours of labor, are nothing compared to the struggle for life and honor, for right and freedom, to which we have vowed ourselves.
