Mr. Churchill Speaks Up

In London, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was moved to speak up in reply to the five U.S. Senators. Said he, to the House of Commons:

"So soon as the war is over, [Britain's] soldiers will leave off fighting and the politicians will begin. Perhaps this is rather a pity, but at any rate it is not so bad as the example of some countries, which I would not venture to name, where the soldiers are fighting abroad and the politicians are fighting at home with equal vigor and ferocity. . . ."

Mr. Churchill's oblique remark was welcomed in the...

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