CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph and typed manuscript fragment, unsigned. Draft notes for an 28 April 1939 radio broadcast to America. 3½ pages (three pages of autograph text and one typewritten page WITH EXTENSIVE AUTOGRAPH CORRECTIONS), 4to and 8vo. Kathleen Hill's identifying docket in pencil.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph and typed manuscript fragment, unsigned. Draft notes for an 28 April 1939 radio broadcast to America. 3½ pages (three pages of autograph text and one typewritten page WITH EXTENSIVE AUTOGRAPH CORRECTIONS), 4to and 8vo. Kathleen Hill's identifying docket in pencil. "GERMANY HAS SOUGHT TO...FORGE A HIDEOUS APPARATUS OF SLAUGHTER BY WHICH TO HOLD THE WORLD TO RANSOM, OR SUBJECT IT TO SERVITUDE" The day after Britain introduced compulsory military service, Churchill prepares these notes for a radio broadcast to America on the world situation. He mixes harsh words about Germany's recent conduct with assurances of peaceful intentions towards the German people--once they have thrown off Hitler's rule. He points out that the Allies poured money into Germany during the 1920s, but that "unhappily Germany has sought to use these benefits to forge a hideous apparatus of slaughter by which to hold the world to ransom, or subject it to servitude." The European democracies were all strengthening their national defenses, and "Nothing can now stop this process except a change of heart in the German leaders or a change of those leaders. But there is not one single country in the Grand Alliance that is being formed in Europe-- with the full sympathy & approval of the U.S.--who would tolerate for one moment the idea of attacking Germany or of trying to impede her peaceful development & legitimate growth. On the contrary the return of Germany to the circle and family of Europe, & to the wide lofty uplands of a prosperous, tolerant, progressive continent remains the sovereign hope of the British, French & American Democracies. And that is what is going to happen in the end." Provenance : Kathleen Hill (Churchill's private secretary); sale Sotheby's London, 13 December 1994, lot 215.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph and typed manuscript fragment, unsigned. Draft notes for an 28 April 1939 radio broadcast to America. 3½ pages (three pages of autograph text and one typewritten page WITH EXTENSIVE AUTOGRAPH CORRECTIONS), 4to and 8vo. Kathleen Hill's identifying docket in pencil.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph and typed manuscript fragment, unsigned. Draft notes for an 28 April 1939 radio broadcast to America. 3½ pages (three pages of autograph text and one typewritten page WITH EXTENSIVE AUTOGRAPH CORRECTIONS), 4to and 8vo. Kathleen Hill's identifying docket in pencil. "GERMANY HAS SOUGHT TO...FORGE A HIDEOUS APPARATUS OF SLAUGHTER BY WHICH TO HOLD THE WORLD TO RANSOM, OR SUBJECT IT TO SERVITUDE" The day after Britain introduced compulsory military service, Churchill prepares these notes for a radio broadcast to America on the world situation. He mixes harsh words about Germany's recent conduct with assurances of peaceful intentions towards the German people--once they have thrown off Hitler's rule. He points out that the Allies poured money into Germany during the 1920s, but that "unhappily Germany has sought to use these benefits to forge a hideous apparatus of slaughter by which to hold the world to ransom, or subject it to servitude." The European democracies were all strengthening their national defenses, and "Nothing can now stop this process except a change of heart in the German leaders or a change of those leaders. But there is not one single country in the Grand Alliance that is being formed in Europe-- with the full sympathy & approval of the U.S.--who would tolerate for one moment the idea of attacking Germany or of trying to impede her peaceful development & legitimate growth. On the contrary the return of Germany to the circle and family of Europe, & to the wide lofty uplands of a prosperous, tolerant, progressive continent remains the sovereign hope of the British, French & American Democracies. And that is what is going to happen in the end." Provenance : Kathleen Hill (Churchill's private secretary); sale Sotheby's London, 13 December 1994, lot 215.
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