NBC radio broadcast
Time: May, 1939
Place: France
Details: In May 1939, the Duke was commissioned by NBC to give a radio broadcast (his first since abdicating) during a visit to the World War I battlefields of Verdun. In it he appealed for peace, saying "I am deeply conscious of the presence of the great company of the dead, and I am convinced that could they make their voices heard they would be with me in what I am about to say. I speak simply as a soldier of the Last War whose most earnest prayer it is that such cruel and destructive madness shall never again overtake mankind. There is no land whose people want war." The broadcast was heard across the world by millions.
‹ Earlier in history100,000 Austrian Jews had left the countryMay, 1939 Later in history ›The Pact of SteelMonday May 22, 1939
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