Parliament in Wartime (or Love is a Battlefield, But So is Germany)
- Creating a new government is always tricky, but now the country is in the early phase of a major conflict, which makes it even trickier.
- Fighting is already underway in Norway and Holland, plus there are preparations to be made in the Mediterranean and in Great Britain itself.
- Churchill says he had to act quickly to create his new government, and therefore hopes the other MPs will cut him some slack for the unceremonious quality of his administration's transition.
- Churchill claims that all he can offer is his hard work and his ultimate dedication—blood, toil, tears, and sweat—to the cause before him.