Great letter. I love the Chamberlain quote-makes me so proud of the southern soldiers, and the northern ones for their recognition of them-and I love the Churchill quote. I’d heard the part where he said that our entry assured victory, but I’d never heard the rest before, about the Civil War and American tenacity, it’s a good point and a great compliment.
The attack on Pearl Harbor prompted Winston Churchill to say, "At this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all!....England would live; Britain would live; The Commonwealth of Nations and the Empire would live. How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end, no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care….Many disasters, immeasurable cost, and tribulation lay ahead, but there was no doubt about the end. I had studied the American Civil War, fought out to the last desperate inch. American blood flowed in my veins. I thought of a remark which Edward Grey had made to me more than thirty years before that the United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate. Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful".