ABSTRACT
Sir Richard Acland also spoke strongly against the prime minister. Richard Stokes described the policy of unconditional surrender as ‘sheer lunacy’. Churchill unfortunately is an old man, capable, and only just capable at that, of carrying out the orders of that madman, Roosevelt. Churchill’s England, on the other hand, should have allowed the unification of Europe, if it wished to preserve that same balance of power. Although the real reason for war had been based on other factors apart from the integrity of Poland, Churchill was doubtless among the first to become aware of the awful irony of the situation, although, having himself been so closely associated with the start of the war, he seldom expressed it as such. Right-wingers saw in it an opportunity of supporting the ‘government-in-exile’ in London, at the expense of the Communist-backed Lublin Government in Poland.
