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No place indicated: No publisher indicated, c. 1940. Leaflet. This is a rare and fascinating wartime propaganda piece ridiculing British Prime Minister Winton Churchill's Second World War alliance of convenience with Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The unsigned, undated leaflet reproduces excerpts from five unidentified pieces of ChurchillÂ’s writing. The leaflet measures 8.125 x 5.875 inches (20.6 x 14.9 cm) and is printed only on the recto. ChurchillÂ’s bibliographer Ronald Cohen gives no publisher or location for this item. The poor English of the introduction and the use of a z with a horizontal stroke through it leads us to speculate that this leaflet is continental, possibly German, propaganda. The leaflet ends by turning ChurchillÂ’s words into a derisive attack on the alleged hypocrisy of BritainÂ’s wartime alliance: “We cannot treat with Bolshevism but you can make the supreme sacrifice so that it can overturn existing civilization by stealth, by propaganda, and by bloody force.” The effect… Read More