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TLS, signed "Yours faithfully, Winston S. Churchill," one page, 8 x 9.75, Chartwell, Westerham letterhead, January 15, 1937. Letter to A. F. Seymour, with Churchill handwriting the greeting at the top, "My dear sir." In full: "If you will read the speech I delivered in the House of Commons on the 12th November 1936 you will see that I drew attention in the most public manner to the kind of neglect to which your letter refers. For more than four years past I have been trying to get preparations made, and I shall continue to do my best." In very good to fine condition, with scattered light foxing, and a repaired tear to the top center.
Churchill’s referenced House of Commons speech—where he had “drawn attention in the most public manner to the kind of neglect” mentioned in Seymour’s letter—was a forceful warning to Great Britain. In it, he urged the nation to stop ignoring the rapid growth and increasingly aggressive posture of Germany’s military power, asserting that 'from the beginning of 1933, when Herr Hitler came into power, it was general public knowledge in this country that serious rearmament had begun in Germany….Owing to past neglect, in the face of the plainest warnings, we have now entered upon a period of danger…The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.' Despite Churchill's best efforts "to get preparations made," the United Kingdom would soon face incredible hardships in the face of Nazi tyranny. Insightful content from the man whose leadership during World War II proved invaluable.
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