“It is a strange thing that certain parts of the world should now be wishing to revive the old religious war. There are those non-God religions Nazism and Communism... I repudiate both and will have nothing to do with either... They are as alike as two peas. Tweedledum and Tweedledee were violently contrasted compared with them. You leave out God and you substitute the devil.”

— Winston S. Churchill

Manchester Guardian (26 January 1937) speech at Leeds Chamber of Commerce
The 1930s

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

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