Eric Fredrick Lindley Wood Halifax Quotes
Winston talks the most frightful rot.
Few from the establishment then thought England could hold out.
Eric Fredrick Lindley Wood Halifax, 1881-1959, British Foreign Secretary, Viceroy of India, British Ambassador to the United States, Reference to Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s insistence on carrying on with the war against Germany and not negotiating a peace, 1940
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