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🗓️ 6 May 2025
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0:16.0 | That's patreon.com slash we have ways Daily Express from Moorhead, Montgomery Field Headquarters, May 4th, Take 1. Stop. |
0:38.9 | Here, on a wild stretch of heath to south of Lunenburg, precisely 6.25 p.m. today, |
0:44.1 | Montgomery signed peace with Germany. Stop. |
0:46.4 | Five German officers walked into the tent and stood behind their chairs at a table |
0:50.1 | over which a grey army blanket had been thrown. Stop. |
0:52.8 | Presently Montgomery arrived and as he took his place at the end of the table, |
0:56.3 | the five Germans saluted and in silence they sat down together. |
0:59.7 | Stop. |
1:00.3 | Montgomery took out his spectacles and in a slow, careful voice, |
1:03.5 | dash, his voice is never strong at any time, undash, read out the following terms of surrender. |
1:08.6 | Stop. |
1:09.3 | Love it. |
1:09.9 | And that was a telegram to the Daily Express |
1:12.0 | by Alan Moorhead, |
1:13.4 | a Tyro reporter who followed Monty all the way |
1:16.6 | through the Second World War, |
1:17.7 | basically, didn't he? |
1:18.5 | From Desert all the way to the end. |
1:20.7 | Can I say that if the Daily Express |
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