http://localhost:8080/subsidiary-crater-emissions Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Fri, 01 Nov 2024 20:19:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 http://localhost:8080/subsidiary-crater-emissions#comment-42757 Fri, 05 Mar 2021 22:55:47 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=10158#comment-42757 Churchill inherited the most successful war in history. He was given the war-leadership because of his war experience and he proved himself worthy of that position. He inherited, as does every PM, the dynamic of that position, the dynamic that was Hitlers enemy and that as termed diplomacy was said to have defeated the Kaiser before he even declared war. The dynamic underlying the discussion of policy options – the dynamic Chamberlain articulated when he wrote that he had been fortified in his view by reading a very interesting book on the foreign policy of Canning. Indeed, Churchill inherited the good actions of Chamberlain, and would perhaps attract less hostility if people were not ignorant of the origins of the war.
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He certainly inherited “the most successful war in history” in May 1940—from Hitler’s standpoint. Quite true however that without Chamberlain’s rearmament efforts, late as they were, he could not have fought the Battle of Britain. RML

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