Don't let's be beastly to the Germans
When our Victory is ultimately won.

Noel Coward

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Topic

World War II Magnanimity in war

Speaker

Noel Coward

Medium

Song

Language

English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Playwright Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Coward, Noel. Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans. Warner Chappell Music, 1943.

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What really matters The heart Perception Reason and emotion
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Source
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Language
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Time
1943 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Le Petit Prince [The Little Prince]. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943, ch. 21.

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We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

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Speech to the Canadian Parliament, December 30, 1941

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Topic
The British people World War II
Speaker
Winston Churchill
Source
Speech to the Canadian Parliament, December 30, 1941
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1941 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Some Chicken! Some Neck!" Joint session of Canadian Parliament. 30 Dec. 1941, Ottawa, Canada. Address.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Some chicken! Some neck!', 30 December 1941, Parliament, Ottawa." Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches. A&C Black, 2013.

Another quote from 1943

I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.

Langston Hughes

The Black Man Speaks

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Topic
Jim Crow Black experience

Author

Langston Hughes
Source
The Black Man Speaks
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1943 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Hughes, Langston. "The Black Man Speaks." Jim Crow’s Last Stand. Negro Publications Society of America, 1943, I. 1.