CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). Typed letter signed ('Winston S. Churchill') to Arthur John Cummings, 11 Morpeth Mansions, 20 November 1934, referring to a forthcoming speech on the subject of Cummings's letter, 'I agree with you there is great exaggeration. But when all exaggeration has been shorn away we still remain confronted in my opinion -- and I have given great thought and study to the matter -- with a mortal peril', one page, 4to. Provenance: by descent from Arthur John Cummings.
'A MORTAL PERIL'. Churchill had made a broadcast on 16 November warning of the dangers of German rearmament; the forthcoming speech he refers to was in the House of Commons on 28 November, when he concentrated in particular on the threat of German aerial rearmament. Cummings was political editor of the News Chronicle.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). Typed letter signed ('Winston S. Churchill') to Arthur John Cummings, 11 Morpeth Mansions, 20 November 1934, referring to a forthcoming speech on the subject of Cummings's letter, 'I agree with you there is great exaggeration. But when all exaggeration has been shorn away we still remain confronted in my opinion -- and I have given great thought and study to the matter -- with a mortal peril', one page, 4to. Provenance: by descent from Arthur John Cummings.
'A MORTAL PERIL'. Churchill had made a broadcast on 16 November warning of the dangers of German rearmament; the forthcoming speech he refers to was in the House of Commons on 28 November, when he concentrated in particular on the threat of German aerial rearmament. Cummings was political editor of the News Chronicle.
