
Winston Churchill on the “Unconquerable Welsh” and David Lloyd George
An apposite quotation at this moment, with Wales locked down in the face of Covid…
Question: I have unsuccessfully searched the web for a speech Winston Churchill gave to Parliament referring to the Welsh as “the undefeatable race.” Do you know the speech? I believe it was in Churchill’s address following the death of David Lloyd George in March 1945. —S.D.
“Unconquerable Welsh”It did occur in that speech, but Churchill’s word was “unconquerable,” not “undefeatable.”
In his Lloyd George tribute, Churchill spoke of the Welsh as “that unconquerable race.” I have emailed you the full text of “The Death of Earl Lloyd George,” in 1945.…