![CHURCHILL, Winston S. Typed letter signed to [Major-General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice, 1st Bart], Treasury Chambers, 15 January 1927, two pages, 4to. Provenance: Stargardt, 27 March 1992, lot 1298.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2010/CKS/2010_CKS_07912_0093_000(churchill_winston_s_typed_letter_signed_to_[major-general_sir_frederic062133).jpg?w=1)
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Typed letter signed to [Major-General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice, 1st Bart], Treasury Chambers, 15 January 1927, two pages, 4to. Provenance: Stargardt, 27 March 1992, lot 1298.
HOPES THAT 'A LONG TIME WILL BE ACCORDED US' BEFORE ANOTHER GREAT WAR. Churchill is at work on The World Crisis ('My work, such as it is, does not attempt to be a complete chronicle [of the Great War], but deals chiefly with those aspects of the war which I personally realised') and asks the recipient to comment upon a paragraph concerning 'the Maurice Debate' (Maurice had been suspended from command in May 1918 for alleging that Lloyd George was misleading the public about troop numbers): 'As you know, I protested vigorously at the failure to reinforce the Army in November and December 1917; but could make no headway in view of the horror and anger inspired in the Cabinet by the prolongation of Paschendaele'. Churchill concludes by complimenting Maurice (who taught and wrote on military history) on his book on the American Civil War, 'a valuable contribution to the study of the problem of the Supreme Command at the outbreak of a great modern war. It will be a long time before a satisfactory solution is devised, but happily we may hope that a long time will be accorded us'.
Writings of Sir Winston Churchill © Estate of Winston S. Churchill
HOPES THAT 'A LONG TIME WILL BE ACCORDED US' BEFORE ANOTHER GREAT WAR. Churchill is at work on The World Crisis ('My work, such as it is, does not attempt to be a complete chronicle [of the Great War], but deals chiefly with those aspects of the war which I personally realised') and asks the recipient to comment upon a paragraph concerning 'the Maurice Debate' (Maurice had been suspended from command in May 1918 for alleging that Lloyd George was misleading the public about troop numbers): 'As you know, I protested vigorously at the failure to reinforce the Army in November and December 1917; but could make no headway in view of the horror and anger inspired in the Cabinet by the prolongation of Paschendaele'. Churchill concludes by complimenting Maurice (who taught and wrote on military history) on his book on the American Civil War, 'a valuable contribution to the study of the problem of the Supreme Command at the outbreak of a great modern war. It will be a long time before a satisfactory solution is devised, but happily we may hope that a long time will be accorded us'.
Writings of Sir Winston Churchill © Estate of Winston S. Churchill
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