“…Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear – I fear greatly – the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, ever more loudly, ever more widely.” Winston Churchill, in a speech on January 20, 1940, while discussing countries [such as the United States] which were remaining neutral during the ongoing war. https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1940-the-finest-hour/the-war-situation-house-of-many-mansions/
(the paper in hand reads “Democracy’s / Fool’s Paradise)
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“…Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear – I fear greatly – the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, ever more loudly, ever more widely.” Winston Churchill, in a speech on January 20, 1940, while discussing countries [such as the United States] which were remaining neutral during the ongoing war. https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1940-the-finest-hour/the-war-situation-house-of-many-mansions/
(the paper in hand reads “Democracy’s / Fool’s Paradise)
Cartoon by David Low, Ken magazine, November 3rd, 1938.
Munich Agreement, September 30, 1938 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement
Today, the Munich Agreement is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement, and the term has become “a byword for the futility of appeasing expansionist totalitarian states”
German occupation of Czechoslovakia in rare photographs, 1938-1939 https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/german-occupation-czechoslovakia-photographs/