
Consistency: Politics Before Country, 1936-2011, Part 2
Consistency in Politics: continued from Part 1… Updated with material from my book, Churchill and the Avoidable War (2015). It exonerates, partially, the actions of Mr. Baldwin.
Churchill reflected in his memoirs on why Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin refused to admit his country had a defense problem—Nazi Germany—because he thought the admission might cost him an election. (Reference to Baldwin’s “miscalculation” refers to his admission, in Parliament, that his previous low estimates of German air strength had been catastrophically low)….
Mr. Baldwin was of course not moved by any ignoble wish to remain in office.…