Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965) The Second World War
Volume V Closing The Ring How Nazi Germany Was Isolated And Assailed On All Sides BOOK I Italy Won
CHAPTER VII
THE INVASION OF ITALY
AT THE WHITE HOUSE AGAIN
Prime Minister to Field-Marshal Smuts 5 Sept 43
...There is no comparison between our conditions and those prevailing in Russia, where the whole strength of a nation of nearly two hundred millions, less war losses, long organised into a vast national army, is deployed on a two-thousand-miles land front.
less war losses...
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I think it inevitable that Russia will be the greatest land Power in the world after this war, which will have rid her of the two military Powers, Japan and Germany, who in our lifetime have inflicted upon her such heavy defeats. I hope however that the “fraternal association” of the British Commonwealth and the United States, together with sea- and air-power, may put us on good terms and in a friendly balance with Russia at least for the period of rebuilding.
at least for the period of rebuilding...
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