WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL (1874-1965)

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WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL (1874-1965)
A 2-page typed press release, signed, on paper headed 28 Hyde Park Gate, London S.W.7., [undated but 1951], sent to Bill Tucker of The Woodford Guardian. This states: "The Socialist Government have drifted from crisis to crisis with shifting and vacillating policies. In this grave hour the return of a united and stable government, with the widest national support, is essential to our continued national existence as a world power. The Socialist Party is deeply divided upon policy and could not form such a Government. Their superficial unity in this campaign would immediately dissolve when Mr. Bevan resumes his 'arguement' with Mr. Attlee, as he has said he would do. A Government formed under such conditions would evoke the pity of our friends and the derision of our enemies throughout the world. This constituency supported me in Parliament when I was warning the country of the risk of a Second World War. Had this warning been heeded, the 'unnecessary' war, with all its dire consequences to humanity, would have been avoided. I do not believe that war is inevitable. The main reason I remain in public life is my hope to prevent it .... " (signature badly faded), framed and glazed, 16½ x 18½in.

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With a typed note by the rceipient stating: "This virtually unknown writing by Winston Churchill was made in 1951 ... He was candidate for the Woodford Division ... In that year I was responsible for the local weekly newspaper, the 'Woodford Guardian' and I asked for an eve-of-poll message to the electorate ... the above was received and signatured by Churchill, albeit using an exhausted blotter one would surmise from the smudging."

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