I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the strength that God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. Background information: This is an excerpt from the first speech given by Winston Churchill upon his election as prime minister. What is the "monstrous tyranny" that Churchill refers to in this passage? the spread of Nazi rule the German-Soviet nonaggression pact the Munich Agreement the policy of appeasement.