In a speech at Lowestoft last Sunday, Mr. R. R.
Stokes, the Minister for Works, affirmed that " all authorities who have written, even at this early stage, about the last war say that without doubt the idiotic declaration about Unconditional Surrender kept the war going at least an extra year." I seem to remember that Mr. Winston Churchill has written one or two little things about the last war. I wish the Minister would give the reference to the passage in Mr. Churchill's works making this assertion about unconditional surrender. It will be interesting, because, in fact, Mr. Churchill wrote to Harry Hopkins, "It is false to suggest that it prolonged the war." Or there is Captain Cyril Falls' History of the Second World War. I expect Captain Falls said what Mr. Stokes credits all authorities who have written on the war with saying, but I have looked for the statement in vain. Here, too, perhaps Mr. Stokes would give the reference.
Previous page
