CHURCHILL, Winston S. Draft typescript signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), n.d. [ca. 1931]. 8pp, 4to , NUMEROUS AUTOGRAPH EMENDATIONS IN CHURCHILL'S HAND.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Draft typescript signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), n.d. [ca. 1931]. 8pp, 4to , NUMEROUS AUTOGRAPH EMENDATIONS IN CHURCHILL'S HAND. "IS A EUROPEAN WAR BECOMING MORE PROBABLE?" Churchill sees the early warning signs of another European conflagration. Interestingly, he sees the danger coming from Russia and its "Asiatic Communism." Hitler's rise to power was still two years in the future. But "All along the frontiers of Russia from the Baltic to the Black Sea lies a line of newly-born or re-born states, who owe their existence or aggrandizement to the disaster which Russia suffered in the Great War. Finland, Esthonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Roumania have all carved their fortunes in whole or in part out of the Russian mass...All the promptings of the modern Russian heart, nationalist and communist alike, point to the eventual reconquest and reabsorption of these states or parts of them in the parent body." He even foresees the alliance that would occur eight years later between Germany and Russia: "Germany, in spite of the gulf which yawns between Russian communism and every form of civilization, looks instinctively to Russia & refuses to close the door to the East..." That is precisely what happened, of course. From 1939-1941 Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia jointly pursued their respective campaigns of conquests. But when Hitler attacked Russia in June 1941, Churchill had no problem embracing "Asiatic Communism" as an ally, famously remarking "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would at least make a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons."
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Draft typescript signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), n.d. [ca. 1931]. 8pp, 4to , NUMEROUS AUTOGRAPH EMENDATIONS IN CHURCHILL'S HAND.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Draft typescript signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), n.d. [ca. 1931]. 8pp, 4to , NUMEROUS AUTOGRAPH EMENDATIONS IN CHURCHILL'S HAND. "IS A EUROPEAN WAR BECOMING MORE PROBABLE?" Churchill sees the early warning signs of another European conflagration. Interestingly, he sees the danger coming from Russia and its "Asiatic Communism." Hitler's rise to power was still two years in the future. But "All along the frontiers of Russia from the Baltic to the Black Sea lies a line of newly-born or re-born states, who owe their existence or aggrandizement to the disaster which Russia suffered in the Great War. Finland, Esthonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Roumania have all carved their fortunes in whole or in part out of the Russian mass...All the promptings of the modern Russian heart, nationalist and communist alike, point to the eventual reconquest and reabsorption of these states or parts of them in the parent body." He even foresees the alliance that would occur eight years later between Germany and Russia: "Germany, in spite of the gulf which yawns between Russian communism and every form of civilization, looks instinctively to Russia & refuses to close the door to the East..." That is precisely what happened, of course. From 1939-1941 Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia jointly pursued their respective campaigns of conquests. But when Hitler attacked Russia in June 1941, Churchill had no problem embracing "Asiatic Communism" as an ally, famously remarking "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would at least make a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons."
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