Churchill on War (3)
Part 3 “Cureless Folly Done and Said…”: Why Churchill was Downcast
What is the scene which unfolds before us tonight? It is certainly not what we had hoped to find after all our enemies had surrendered unconditionally and the great world instrument of the United Nations had been set up to make sure that the wars were ended. It is certainly not that. Peace does not sit untroubled in her vineyard. —Churchill on 14 January 1952, Chateau Laurier, Ottawa
Toward the end of his life, the old lion who had had implored, “never despair,” was himself gripped by melancholy.…
