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I heard many years ago that when British Prime Miniser Winston Churchill was voted out of office at the end of world war 2 he said, "That's democracy, that's what we have been fighting for". But a few days ago, watching a biography of Churchill's bodyguard (Walter Thomson), it was said that Churchill was terribly hurt by the rejection of the British people, and no mention was made of what would have been a typically gallant Churchill quote. Does anyone know if the above quote is true or not.
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Unfortunately it is a long wide ranging speech and you want the paragraph beginning "Surely we can agree in this new Parliament"
Churchill was certainly upset about the result, privately calling it a betrayal and his views would be known to his bodyguard. However the election result came on July 26th; several weeks before the above speech was made and the bodyguard may not have been aware of it.
I have also seen the text of his resignation speech in which the same public acceptance is shown, but he ends up 'predicting' a sudden end to the war against Japan (a week before Hiroshima but the Atom bomb had been discussed at the Potsdam conference which he had just returned from)
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