So, that is it. It's war when only this morning we were at peace. When the announcement was over my wife turned off the radio, my children went back out into the garden, and I just sat in silence. There isn't actually much else I can say - I just thought of the last war, my time in Macedonia, the grimness and inhumanity of the trenches, and I simply cannot believe that after that experience we are back here again. Somewhere, deep down, there is something of relief - few of us can really have believed that this would end up any other way, and now it is out in the open. It was half an hour before I could rise from my chair, and walked out to join the children in the garden.
Chamberlain's speech to the nation declaring war
The King to the Empire
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