Author of quotes: Winston Churchill. Page 4

The man who is not ready to risk, can not win the war.

I arrived in the Kremlin and first met the great revolutionary leader and a wise Russian statesman and a warrior, which over the next three years I had to maintain a close, harsh, but always exciting, and sometimes even cordial relations.

I was thinking about his mission to this sullen, sinister Bolshevik state, which I so persistently tried to strangle at its birth and which until the appearance of Hitler, I thought mortal enemy of civilized freedom. What had I to say to them now?

Planning a giant event in 1943, we were not able to put aside all other responsibilities. Our first obligation to the Empire was to protect India from Japanese invasion.

We already knew that Hitler had instructed the German Navy to concentrate its forces in the winter in Norway, not only in order to prevent the English troops, but to prevent the flow of materials and munitions to Russia.

In accordance with the agreement, the Soviet government was responsible for loading supplies on their own ships and shipping them to Russia. However, they did not have enough courts for such a huge number of materials that we were ready to send, and the English and American court soon accounted for three quarters of the tonnage.

When Soviet Russia was attacked by Hitler, the only way we Americans could help her was the supply of arms and materials. They were delivered on a large scale of American and British goods and American military equipment, has transferred to England. Therefore, equipping our weapon-starved armies suffered greatly.

The British government in India, many worked hard to build a huge Indian army.

After the entry of Japan into the war the scale of the Anglo-American military action is almost directly dependent on the compensation of our ship at the expense of new construction. Ultimately destined to solve all marine problems due to the construction of the enormous number of merchant ships.

If the policy you get ahold of something good, then keep at it.

The Russians were not presented in the combined (Anglo-American) headquarters. They had one, far away from us as an independent front, and therefore there was no need or opportunity to link the work of our staffs with them.

No one can foresee what will be the balance of forces and where is the army victorious by the end of the war. However, it seems likely that the United States and the British Empire not be depleted and will be the most powerful in its economy and weapons unit, which ever saw the world, and that the Soviet Union will need our aid for reconstruction of the country much more than we'll need his help.

War is a constant struggle that must be waged from day to day. To take the necessary measures for the future difficult, and they can only be limited. Experience shows that forecasts are usually not true, and cooking late. However, you must have a General plan and vision in order to bring the war to a victorious end without much delay.

The war in the West in 1942, will include as the main offensive operations occupation by Britain and the United States all French possessions in North and West Africa and the establishment of control over these territories and the establishment of British control over the entire North African coast from Tunisia to Egypt, which will ensure, if this will allow the position of the sea, free passage through the Mediterranean sea to the Levant and the Suez canal.