winston churchill the gathering storm 1948

My answer was, 'The Unnecessary War.' If the United Stated States had taken an active part in the League of Nations, and if the League of Nations had been prepared to use concerted force, even had it only been European force, to prevent the re-armament of Germany, there was no need for further serious bloodshed. President Roosevelt one day asked what this War should be called. 5 Churchill brought up the anecdote about his conversation with Roosevelt while giving a speech to the Belgian Senate and Chamber. Churchill himself best sums up the reason for labeling World War II the 'Unnecessary War' in a speech he gave as he was working on he first chapters of the book. The book is a narrative of events after World War I to the point of Churchill becoming Prime Minister in 1940. 3Īfter the preface to The Gathering Storm, Churchill states that the theme of the book is 'How the English-speaking peoples through their unwisdom, carelessness, and good nature allowed the wicked to rearm.' 4 What he didn't say was a number of those blunders had been committed by Winston Churchill himself. That's what Churchill told Franklin Roosevelt and he was right. It was the easiest war to avoid in all of history. The war was unnecessary, Churchill said, because of the constant blunders before the war that got us into it. 2 When bringing up this quote, Buchanan typically follows it up with reversing the term back on Churchill.

1īuchanan is quoting Churchill's preface to The Gathering Storm, the first part of a 6-volume series about World War II. I said at once, 'The Unnecessary War.' There never was a war more easy to stop than that which has just wrecked what was left of the world from the previous struggle.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. Buchanan has brought the term up in several interviews a statement made by Winston Churchill in his memoirs. Buchanan's Churchill, Hitler, and the 'Unnecessary War' gets part of its title from a quote by Winston Churchill.

Winston churchill the gathering storm 1948