Rare Churchill Quote

I found this interesting quote from Winston Churchill, made to New York Enquirer editor William Griffen in August, 1936:

America should have minded her own business and stayed out of the World War. If you hadn’t entered the war the Allies would have made peace with Germany in the Spring of 1917. Had we made peace then there would have been no collapse in Russia followed by Communism, no breakdown in Italy followed by Fascism, and Germany would not have signed the Versailles Treaty, which has enthroned Nazism in Germany. If America had stayed out of the war, all these ‘isms’ wouldn’t to-day be sweeping the continent of Europe and breaking down parliamentary government, and if England had made peace early in 1917, it would have saved over one million British, French, American, and other lives.

I think Churchill is one of the greatest enigmas in modern history. It's weird to see such a solid case for non-interventionism from such an interventionist.

For further enlightenment, I highly recommend reading Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker. It's my second favorite book of all time.