“Everyone can see the arguments against the English-speaking peoples becoming the policemen of the world.”

—  Winston S. Churchill

To End War, Collier's, 29 June 1935
Reproduced in The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Vol I, Churchill at War, Centenary Edition (1976), Library of Imperial History, p. 351-2. ISBN 0903988429
The 1930s

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