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Christmas after our darkest hour (1940)

25 December 2022

5:00 PM

25 December 2022

5:00 PM

Below is The Spectator’s leading article from Christmas 1940, which you can find on our fully-digitised archive.

We have reached the second Christmas of the war, and we are keeping it with what heart we may. No confidence in the rightness of our cause is lacking, nor has doubt emerged about the ultimate issue of the struggle.

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