IMMEDIATE

Following for the Prime Minister from Mr. Winston Churchill on
accepting His Majesty's invitation to fill the office of Prime
Minister-
'I send you my warmest greetings and my grateful thanks for your
cheering message. [1] The responsibility which has fallen to me in
this solemn hour is lightened by the fact that it is shared by you
and the other Prime Ministers of the overseas Dominions.

The peoples of the British Commonwealth once again united in arms
against a cruel barbarism are resolved to wage this righteous war
to the end.'