Churchill’s views about borders and “captive nationalities” differed between the World Wars. In 1918 he opposed shifting populations against their will, condemning Germany’s 1870 annexation of Alsace-Lorraine. In 1945 he was agreeable, even anxious, to shift the Polish state at the expense of Poles in the east and Germans in the west. But by then there were graver worries, and no one was speaking of a “war to end wars.” The post “Much To Be Thankful For”: Reparations and Magna...| 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