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“I believe in Winston’s capability if only he were a bit more steady. But you never know what kite he is going to fly next.” More bluntly, a future prime minister said of Churchill: “I think he has very unusual intellectual ability, but at the same times he seems to have an entirely unbalanced mind.” Churchill himself said, “I like things to happen, and if they don’t happen I like to make them happen.” He might have developed the point a bit further: he liked to make dangerous things happen. Fighting danger, coping with a crisis, served as a tonic, the best medicine for his internal crises—the “black dog,” the moods brought on by chronic depression. The resultant behavior made Churchill seem to many an impulsive and erratic romantic in a depressed and matter-of-fact world whose inhabitants wanted jobs and social security rather than swordplay and glory.”
― To Keep the British Isles Afloat: FDR's Men in Churchill's London, 1941
― To Keep the British Isles Afloat: FDR's Men in Churchill's London, 1941
“Hopkins decided, that meant that he expected the war to go on. At one point Stalin said, “Give us antiaircraft guns and aluminum and we can fight for three or four years.” He also said forcefully, “They will never get to Moscow this year.” Hopkins found himself agreeing. (Stalin might have spoken even more forcefully, and Hopkins’s conviction might have run even deeper, had the two known that, within less than two weeks, the chief of the German General Staff would note somberly, “The whole situation shows more and more clearly that we have underestimated the colossus of Russia.”)”
― To Keep the British Isles Afloat: FDR's Men in Churchill's London, 1941
― To Keep the British Isles Afloat: FDR's Men in Churchill's London, 1941
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