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Winston Churchill's lost Olympic speech found in Cambridge

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Churchill was supporting a 1923 fundraising campaign to enable British athletes to take part in the Games based on merit, not just on whether they could afford it.

The letter was unearthed in the Churchill Archive Centre , part of the University of Cambridge , which holds the World War Two prime minister's papers.

Churchill delivered the speech at Mansion House , in the City of London , in July 1923 .