Posted on 12/21/2013 3:20:41 PM PST by LS
Freepers,
I am looking for a quotation that I was SURE was from Churchill to FDR, only I can't find it anywhere. It went something like this (referring to Britain's situation in 1940): "You will sell us (or give us, don't know which) what we need as long as we can pay for it, and when we can no longer pay for it, you will give it to us anyway."
I thought it was in Paul Johnson's book "Modern Times," but it isn't. Anyone know of this?
sounds more like a stalin quote, something similar where the west will sell them everything they need as capitalists to even appear on the scene to sell the rope that they will hang us by.
I’d look or fiddle around with this as a Stalin quote
versus a Lend/Lease Churchill quote.
Churchill said something like “give us the tools and we will finish the job”. Now that I think about it, that was probably an American World War II poster so maybe Churchill never said anything like that.
Churchill said something like “give us the tools and we will finish the job”. Now that I think about it, that was probably an American World War II poster so maybe Churchill never said anything like that.
Don’t know this one, but here is a Churchill quote that 0.00, the Dhimmis and RINOs could stand to read and contemplate on:
“Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.”
Winston Churchill
Here is your quote:
“We shall go on paying dollars for as long as we can, but I should like to feel reasonably sure that when we can pay no more, you will give us the stuff all the same.” — Winston Churchill, May 15, 1940 letter to President Roosevelt (pp. 24-25, “Their Finest Hour).
If I am not mistaken, the quote you are looking was spoken about the development of the Lend-Lease initiative. Not sure where it can be located.
Good on you!
Now, that’s an excellent bit of research.
Beautiful
There were some reminiscences in his History of the English Speaking Peoples about his conversations with Roosevelt on the subject of Britain’s ability to pay. I don’t remember that quote or sentiment though.
Is what you are looking for inside of this?
“Moreover I do not believe the Government of the United States would find it in accordance with the principles which guide them, to confine the help which they have so generously promised to only such munitions of war and commodities as could be immediately paid for. You may be assured that we shall prove ourselves ready to suffer and sacrifice to the utmost for the Cause, and that we glory in being its champion. The rest we leave with confidence to you and to your people, being sure that ways and means will be found which future generations on both sides of the Atlantic will approve and admire.
If, as I believe, you are convinced, Mr. President, that the defeat of the Nazi and Fascist tyranny is a matter of high consequence to the people of the United States and to the Western Hemisphere, you will regard this letter not as an appeal for aid, but as a statement of the minimum action necessary to the achievement of our common purpose.”
Among the souvenirs etc. my Father sent home while he was in WWII was a single page telling them how to behave while in Great Britain. This was given to them the same day they landed in Liverpool.
One thing was not to show off your wealth as if something like $18 a month was a lot of wealth.
Also they were told not to complain about their coffee. “After all they think we can’t make a decent cup of tea.”
BOOYA. Thank you. That is it!
Somehow I missed your post, it is obviously it.
Can you tell me the year/publisher and edition of “Their Finest Hour” that you have cited?
Cool. One of the greats,, thrust into the middle of human conflicts, it’s likely few others might ever survive as regally and as irreverently,, talk about enduring a life of wars, bourbon, bulldogs and duties par non,, half Brit half american.. He turned out a lot better than Obama, half american half uhhh ?? .. ;-]
Merry Christmas and a HaPPY Holiday!!
Why, thank you. It gave me a chance to get back into my Churchill library. I read his series “The Second World War” in junior high and high school and I’ve been looking for a reason to get back into it since. :)
You are quite welcome. You have a good memory.
My version is the Houghton Mifflin / Cooperation Publishing version, 1949. I do not see an edition number in my copies.
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