“The choice was clearly open: crush them with vain and unstinted force, or try to give them what they want. These were the only alternatives, and though each had ardent advocates, most people were unprepared for either. Here indeed was the Irish spectre — horrid and inexorcisable.”

— Winston S. Churchill , book The World Crisis

The World Crisis, Volume V : the Aftermath (1929), Churchill, Butterworth (London).
Early career years (1898–1929)

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