CHURCHILL (WINSTON) Typed letter signed ('Winston S. Churchill') to A.S. Judge ('My dear Sir'), ...
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CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Typed letter signed ('Winston S. Churchill') to A.S. Judge ('My dear Sir'), advising him to send his letter to the Daily Telegraph as he would have a better chance of getting it printed ('...Although this paper is unhappily hostile at the present time to our view on Indian policy, it nevertheless accords far more impartial treatment in its letter columns to our opinions... After all they have a far larger circulation than the Times...'), one page, dust-staining, creased with small tears at folds, 4to (255 x 200mm.), Chartwell, 26 September 1933Footnotes:Churchill, the defender of Empire, took a firm stance against partition and famously described Gandhi as '...a malignant subversive fanatic...' and '...a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir... striding half naked up the steps of the Viceregal Palace while he is still organizing and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience...'. He refused to meet Gandhi on his trip to London in 1931 for the Second Round Table Conference: '...In my view England is now beginning a new period of struggle and fighting for its life, and the crux of it will be not only the retention of India but a much stronger assertion of commercial rights. As long as we are sure that we press no claim on India which is not in their real interest we are justified in using our undoubted power for our welfare and for our own...' (Martin Gilbert, Churchill, A Life, 2000, p.106).
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CHURCHILL (WINSTON) Typed letter signed ('Winston S. Churchill') to A.S. Judge ('My dear Sir'), ...
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