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CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). Typed letter signed ('W') to 'Max' [Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook], Chartwell, 23 September 1930, 2 page, 4to (rust stains from paper clip, punch holes).
THE PLIGHT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. Beaverbrook is ill, and Churchill sends words of encouragement, in particular in respect of Beaverbrook's Empire Free Trade movement, which he had launched in the previous year to put pressure on Stanley Baldwin, expressing his admiration for a 'great year', in which Beaverbrook has risen to the highest level in politics at unprecedented speed, adding 'Naturally I regret that the growth of your influence should have been almost exactly proportionate to the diminution of mine'; Churchill's main purpose in writing, however, is to urge Beaverbrook to use his influence to revive the country from the 'rotten state' into which it has fallen, evoking the 'blood and money' lost in the Great War, in contrast with the 'helplessness and pusillanimity' of the current age, in particular in relation to Britain's imperial influence. Churchill declares that his own 'only interest in politics' is to retrieve this situation, and urges Beaverbrook to broaden his policy into a reaffirmation of Britain's status as an imperial power, 'splendid and united'.
THE PLIGHT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. Beaverbrook is ill, and Churchill sends words of encouragement, in particular in respect of Beaverbrook's Empire Free Trade movement, which he had launched in the previous year to put pressure on Stanley Baldwin, expressing his admiration for a 'great year', in which Beaverbrook has risen to the highest level in politics at unprecedented speed, adding 'Naturally I regret that the growth of your influence should have been almost exactly proportionate to the diminution of mine'; Churchill's main purpose in writing, however, is to urge Beaverbrook to use his influence to revive the country from the 'rotten state' into which it has fallen, evoking the 'blood and money' lost in the Great War, in contrast with the 'helplessness and pusillanimity' of the current age, in particular in relation to Britain's imperial influence. Churchill declares that his own 'only interest in politics' is to retrieve this situation, and urges Beaverbrook to broaden his policy into a reaffirmation of Britain's status as an imperial power, 'splendid and united'.
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