DeLong and the Short of It
July 5, 2011
Robert and David: While on the topic of water-carriers, what would Brad DeLong have to say about Winston’s praise for Hitler in 1938?
“I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations.” (Winston Churchill in The London Times, Monday, November 7, 1938)
Butler Shaffer was Professor Emeritus at Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938, Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival, and Boundaries of Order. His latest book is The Wizards of Ozymandias.
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