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May 14, 2009 · In surveying why Britain went to war in 1914, Buchanan cites Churchill’s remark to Lloyd George: “One cause alone should justify our participation—to prevent France from being trampled down & looted by the Prussian Junkers 3 —a disaster ruinous to the world, & fatal to our country” (40).
Buchanan accuses Churchill and Grey of getting Britain to enter the war in 1914 by making promises that Britain would defend France without the knowledge of Cabinet or Parliament.
- Pat Buchanan
- 2008
Jul 17, 2008 · When bringing up this quote, Buchanan typically follows it up with reversing the term back on Churchill. The war was unnecessary, Churchill said, because of the constant blunders before the war that got us into it. It was the easiest war to avoid in all of history. That’s what Churchill told Franklin Roosevelt and he was right.
Dec 12, 2016 · Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary (1905 to 16), helped take Britain into the First World War but the conflict weighed heavily on him. This blog looks at the physical and emotional strain on...
Along the way, Buchanan adduces evidence that Kaiser Wilhelm II, a grandson of Queen Victoria and nephew of King Edward VII, did not seek war with Great Britain (in 1910, he “marched in Edward’s funeral—in the uniform of a British field marshal”).
May 6, 2009 · Buchanan accused Churchill of purposely not warning Roosevelt that Japan intended to attack Pearl Harbor, and repeated the old Anthony Cave Brown canard, long disproved, that WSC had “let Coventry burn” rather than tip off the Germans that Britain had cracked their code.
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In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen—Winston Churchill first among them—the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British Empire might never have collapsed into ruins.
