“The Eastern Front” was written in the quiet of Churchill’s country home, pondered deeply in every stage of its creation, and at all times a pleasure to him. He had no axes to grind (as in the earlier volumes), no vindications to make. For the first time in his World Crisis volumes, he was in the same position as his readers: viewing the scene from afar, trying to visualize the appalling battles and hardships, forever seeking in his mind an explanation of the whole. The post “The Worl...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
Churchill’s account of Romania in the Great War expresses his lifetime view that in the face of aggression, there is no room for neutrality. In 1940 he remarked of the neutrals: “Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last.” He had no better use for Romania’s “ambiguous watchfulness” in the previous war. It was, he insisted, utterly ineffective. The post “The World Crisis” (12): “The Eastern Front” and Romania’s Error appeared fi...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
“Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or of cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy. No sooner did Lenin arrive than he began beckoning a finger here and a finger there.... He gathered together the leading spirits of the most formidable sect in the world, of which he was the high priest and chief.” The post Lenin as Plague Bacillus, Churchill as Munition...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
“So they said: ‘It is no use setting up a League of Nations without Russia. If we are to accomplish this it can only be with the aid of Germany. Germany knows more about Russia than anyone else. Germany let Lenin loose on Russia. Ought she not to play her part in clearing up this whole eastern battlefield like the others?’” The post “The World Crisis” (11): Churchill’s “Armistice Dream” appeared first on The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College.| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
In December 1918, Wilson set off to secure peace. “His opportunity was nevertheless as great as has ever been given to a statesman.”| The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College
King Albert of the Belgians on Winston Churchill’s defense of Antwerp in 1914: “A service we shall never forget.”| The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College