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From ‘Democracy is Indestructible — Says Bernard Shaw’, Cavalcade, 28 March 1942. The strong notes of optimism in this interview seem scarcely to have been justified by the circumstances at the time. In 1941 Britain had suffered a number of serious reversals. They were driven out of Greece and Crete; Hong Kong had fallen; the Malay Peninsula was overrun; India was threatened; the Battle of the Atlantic had worsened. Churchill was not optimistic in March 1942 about an early conclusion to the war. On 26 March he said at a Conservative Party Central Council Meeting: ‘I cannot offer this morning any guarantee that we are at the end of our misfortune.’1
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Gibbs, A.M. (1990). Democracy Indestructible. In: Gibbs, A.M. (eds) Shaw. Interviews and Recollections Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05402-2_279
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