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It was 75 years ago, at 4:45 a.m. on September 1, 1939, that a German warship fired on Polish troops stationed at the Westerplatte Fort in the port city of Danzig, signifying the start of World War II. It was a cataclysm that would engulf the globe, killing more than 50 million human beings while permanently altering the international order. According to Britain’s wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill, it was one that should never have had to been fought.
In the preface to “The Gathering Storm,” the first of his magisterial six-volume account of World War II, Churchill relates the following story: “One day, President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once, ‘The Unnecessary War.’ There never was a war more easy to stop than that which has just wrecked what was left of the world from the previous struggle.”
Churchill said that he would proceed to explain “How the English-speaking peoples through their unwisdom, carelessness, and good nature allowed the wicked to rearm.” Through their dithering, the Western powers had allowed Germany to re-equip itself after its defeat in World War I, a process that could have been stopped at any time through force and determination.
What Churchill Told FDR As World War II Erupted Exactly 75 Years Ago - The New York Sun
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Liberals are truly the scourge of human liberty.
In the preface to “The Gathering Storm,” the first of his magisterial six-volume account of World War II, Churchill relates the following story: “One day, President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once, ‘The Unnecessary War.’ There never was a war more easy to stop than that which has just wrecked what was left of the world from the previous struggle.”
Churchill said that he would proceed to explain “How the English-speaking peoples through their unwisdom, carelessness, and good nature allowed the wicked to rearm.” Through their dithering, the Western powers had allowed Germany to re-equip itself after its defeat in World War I, a process that could have been stopped at any time through force and determination.
What Churchill Told FDR As World War II Erupted Exactly 75 Years Ago - The New York Sun
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Liberals are truly the scourge of human liberty.
