CHURCHILL, Winston S. Draft typescript signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), 31 January 1931. A King Features Syndicate article on European disarmament, the League of Nations and Bolshevik Russia. 10 pages, 4to , NUMEROUS EDITORIAL EMENDATIONS IN CHURCHILL'S HAND.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Draft typescript signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), 31 January 1931. A King Features Syndicate article on European disarmament, the League of Nations and Bolshevik Russia. 10 pages, 4to , NUMEROUS EDITORIAL EMENDATIONS IN CHURCHILL'S HAND. "WARS AND RUMOURS OF WAR WOULD CEASE FOREVER" Churchill casts a jaundiced but hopeful eye over the recent disarmament talks at the League of Nations. "All the foreign Ministers of all the countries lifted up their voices and sang for joy that peace and concord would now reign...and that disarmament, wars and rumours of wars would cease for ever." But many powerful and dangerous nations remained either insecure, menacing, or both. "Bolshevik Russia, vast, slatternly, malignant leans its heavy Asiatic weight upon the weakest side of Europe." The French? "It took almost all the world united to subdue the might of Germany. Can France count upon similar aid being forthcoming in another eruption of the Teutonic volcano?...Has France treated the United States in such a way as to make it likely that millions of American youth again will be available at Chateau Thierry or elsewhere, next time?" Then there was Poland "newly united" which "feels the hatred of the terrible Soviet power on the one hand and the strong resentments of virile Germany on the other." The European situation simmered in a volatile state, but Churchill was hopeful that the past dozen years of peace and stability had cured European leaders to stop resorting to war to settle their differences. "Another decade of peace...will make it possible to write by general agreement much more satisfactory figures into the categories of disarmament than could be written there today." He closes by urging European leaders to "Advance hopefully into the future, and we shall not be dragged back by the clawing fingers of the past." It was not to be.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Draft typescript signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), 31 January 1931. A King Features Syndicate article on European disarmament, the League of Nations and Bolshevik Russia. 10 pages, 4to , NUMEROUS EDITORIAL EMENDATIONS IN CHURCHILL'S HAND.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Draft typescript signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), 31 January 1931. A King Features Syndicate article on European disarmament, the League of Nations and Bolshevik Russia. 10 pages, 4to , NUMEROUS EDITORIAL EMENDATIONS IN CHURCHILL'S HAND. "WARS AND RUMOURS OF WAR WOULD CEASE FOREVER" Churchill casts a jaundiced but hopeful eye over the recent disarmament talks at the League of Nations. "All the foreign Ministers of all the countries lifted up their voices and sang for joy that peace and concord would now reign...and that disarmament, wars and rumours of wars would cease for ever." But many powerful and dangerous nations remained either insecure, menacing, or both. "Bolshevik Russia, vast, slatternly, malignant leans its heavy Asiatic weight upon the weakest side of Europe." The French? "It took almost all the world united to subdue the might of Germany. Can France count upon similar aid being forthcoming in another eruption of the Teutonic volcano?...Has France treated the United States in such a way as to make it likely that millions of American youth again will be available at Chateau Thierry or elsewhere, next time?" Then there was Poland "newly united" which "feels the hatred of the terrible Soviet power on the one hand and the strong resentments of virile Germany on the other." The European situation simmered in a volatile state, but Churchill was hopeful that the past dozen years of peace and stability had cured European leaders to stop resorting to war to settle their differences. "Another decade of peace...will make it possible to write by general agreement much more satisfactory figures into the categories of disarmament than could be written there today." He closes by urging European leaders to "Advance hopefully into the future, and we shall not be dragged back by the clawing fingers of the past." It was not to be.
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