CHURCHILL DISCLOSES ORIGINAL SUGGESTION FOR DEALING WITH INVASION
(Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, May 16. During an address delivered after accepting the freedom of the burgh at Ayr, Mr Churchill said he always declared that World War 11. would have been the easiest of all wars to stop. “ President Roosevelt in 1943 asked what the war should be called. I said: ‘ I can give you a very easy reply—call it the Unnecessary War.’ “ After the loss of Paris I urged the French army to undertake guerrilla war, thereby using up 100 German divisions. General Weygand said even that left 100 to 150 divisions to conquer England, and he asked what would I do then? " I said I was not a military expert, but my professional adviser took the view that the best way to deal with such an invasion was to drown as many as possible on their way over, and knock the others on the head as they crawled ashore,”
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Evening Star, Issue 26103, 17 May 1947, Page 7
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