“I am trying to marshal all the forces I can to prevent this coming war, and to strengthen Britain.”

— Winston S. Churchill

Letter to Guy Fleetwood Wilson (13 November 1936), quoted in Martin Gilbert, Prophet of Truth: Winston S. Churchill, 1922–1939 (London: Minerva, 1990), p. 800
The 1930s

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