I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action…

Winston Churchill
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I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself. ✨ Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963, Atheneum
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