On 19 May 1943, Prime Minister of England Winston Churchill addressed a Joint Meeting of Congress in the House chamber regarding continued support for the war in Europe.

In this photo, Churchill delivered a passionate speech from the old marble rostrum, in the House chamber regarding not only the status of the war, but also the need to pursue this endeavor until its successful conclusion. Churchill reminded the Joint Meeting that "the main burden of the war on land" was still being borne by the Soviet Army on the Eastern Front and that the United States and Great Britain needed to step up its efforts to aid them. By this point, the Britain had been fighting for over three and a half years and weariness was setting in. Churchill had first spoken to Congress in January, 1942. In this second appearance, Churchill remembered that “there were days after our long and for a whole year lonely struggle when I could not repress in my heart a sense of relief and comfort that we were all bound together by common peril, by solemn faith and high purpose to see this fearful struggle through at all costs to the end.”