CHURCHILL, Winston S. Draft typescript signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), 8 October 1931. 9 pages, 4to, numerous holograph emendations in Churchill's hand and in the hand of a copy editor, punch hole at top left .
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Draft typescript signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), 8 October 1931. 9 pages, 4to, numerous holograph emendations in Churchill's hand and in the hand of a copy editor, punch hole at top left . "THE SOCIALIST MOVEMENT MUST BE ARRESTED AND CAST DOWN", Churchill declares in this draft newspaper column written on the eve of a general election campaign, in the midst of the Great Depression. He laments that "for three anxious weeks rant and clatter, promises and prejudices, stunts and slogans must hold the field. Faction and fiction, strife and turmoil claim their appointed reign." But he nevertheless rejoices "that we have the power under the Royal Prerogative to terminate prematurely the life of a Parliament which had outlived its usefulness....The poor, half-baked, callow Socialist Party came into office two years ago without a man, without a majority, and without a mandate. None of their leaders believed the nonsense their followers prated or their party doctrines prescribed. They despised their party and loathed each other cordially." The Labour Party, under Ramsey MacDonald's leadership, won a slim majority in the 1929 general election, only to face the disaster of the Great Depression later that year. His government ministers argued bitterly over how to meet the crisis, with Arthur Henderson supporting John Maynard Keynes's plan for deficit spending while MacDonald clung to balancing the budget and maintaining the gold standard. Labour ousted MacDonald as leader, in favor of Henderson, but the King urged MacDonald to form a National Government in collaboration with the Tories and Liberals. "The task therefore," Churchill writes, "is not to reason with an agonized or infuriated people," but to get them to face "the awkward, uncomfortable fact that they have got to face a somewhat harder and more stringent form of existence." He is confident that the public will accept this as long as "they are satisfied all classes are having their share of the gruel." MacDonald's National Coalition trounced Labour in the October 1931 general election, taking a combined 554 seats to Labour's 52.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Draft typescript signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), 8 October 1931. 9 pages, 4to, numerous holograph emendations in Churchill's hand and in the hand of a copy editor, punch hole at top left .
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Draft typescript signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), 8 October 1931. 9 pages, 4to, numerous holograph emendations in Churchill's hand and in the hand of a copy editor, punch hole at top left . "THE SOCIALIST MOVEMENT MUST BE ARRESTED AND CAST DOWN", Churchill declares in this draft newspaper column written on the eve of a general election campaign, in the midst of the Great Depression. He laments that "for three anxious weeks rant and clatter, promises and prejudices, stunts and slogans must hold the field. Faction and fiction, strife and turmoil claim their appointed reign." But he nevertheless rejoices "that we have the power under the Royal Prerogative to terminate prematurely the life of a Parliament which had outlived its usefulness....The poor, half-baked, callow Socialist Party came into office two years ago without a man, without a majority, and without a mandate. None of their leaders believed the nonsense their followers prated or their party doctrines prescribed. They despised their party and loathed each other cordially." The Labour Party, under Ramsey MacDonald's leadership, won a slim majority in the 1929 general election, only to face the disaster of the Great Depression later that year. His government ministers argued bitterly over how to meet the crisis, with Arthur Henderson supporting John Maynard Keynes's plan for deficit spending while MacDonald clung to balancing the budget and maintaining the gold standard. Labour ousted MacDonald as leader, in favor of Henderson, but the King urged MacDonald to form a National Government in collaboration with the Tories and Liberals. "The task therefore," Churchill writes, "is not to reason with an agonized or infuriated people," but to get them to face "the awkward, uncomfortable fact that they have got to face a somewhat harder and more stringent form of existence." He is confident that the public will accept this as long as "they are satisfied all classes are having their share of the gruel." MacDonald's National Coalition trounced Labour in the October 1931 general election, taking a combined 554 seats to Labour's 52.
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