Read the following excerpt from Winston Churchill's "Their Finest Hour" speech presented during World War II:
I am not reciting these facts for the purpose of
recrimination. That I judge to be utterly futile and even
harmful. We cannot afford it. ... Now I put all this aside. I
put it on the shelf, from which the historians, when they
have time, will select their documents to tell their stories.
We have to think of the future and not of the past.
What is most likely the intended effect of beginning the speech this way?