Things Worth Remembering: Winston Churchill’s Christmas Message to America

‘In the midst of war, raging and roaring over all the lands and seas, creeping nearer to our hearts and homes, we have tonight the peace of the spirit.’ -  Douglas Murray 
As we near Christmas, I am reminded of the wonderful, 393-word speech delivered by the inimitable Winston Churchill on Christmas Eve of 1941. 

He spoke from the South Portico of the White House, in the midst of war...

The story behind Churchill’s Christmas Eve speech perfectly captures something essential about the man. 

Two days earlier, the British prime minister stepped off a plane at an airfield near Washington, D.C., where he was warmly greeted by the American president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. “I clasped his strong hand with comfort and pleasure,” Churchill later recalled.
It had been just over two weeks since Imperial Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor, leaving nearly 2,400 Americans dead. 

Within days, the United States, along with Britain, was officially at war with the Japanese and Nazi Germany...