Talk:People of Western Europe speech

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Did you know... that 47 million copies of Dwight D. Eisenhower's People of Western Europe speech were printed for distribution during World War II?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 19:34, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Dwight D. Eisenhower had to rerecord his People of Western Europe speech at the insistence of William S. Paley? "Ike must do it himself, Paley said. The supreme commander at length conceded." from: Rives, Timothy. "General Dwight D. Eisenhower's D-Day radio address to the Allied Nations (June 6, 1944)" (PDF). Library of Congress. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
- ALT1:... that 47 million copies of Dwight D. Eisenhower's People of Western Europe speech were printed for distribution during World War II? "47 million copies had already been printed in five languages" from: Mayo, Jonathan (2014). D-Day: Minute by Minute. Simon and Schuster. p. 74. ISBN 978-1-4767-7295-0.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Chilean seaside cinclodes

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 18:00, 19 June 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Hi Dumelow, review follows:

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

I like ALT1 much better, ALT0 doesn't seem incredibly interesting. I'd suggest adding 'around 47 million copies in five languages' or something, but wont require it. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 22:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]