Author: A.J. Cummings
Edition: Signed.
Size: (7 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches)
Place published: London
Year: 1936
The original typescript summary of a marvelously revealing newspaper interview with Winston Churchill, conducted by newspaperman A.J. Cummings, of the News Chronicle on 26th May, 1936, in the midst of Churchill's between-the-wars "Wilderness Years, as Hitler's shadow was beginning to lengthen across Europe. "I had a long talk with Churchill. Speaking as he said, on the dead level for private guidance, he was full and candid. It is obvious that he views the whole situation in Europe with grave alarm... but says he is annoyed at the suggestion that he has been waiting on the doorstep for a job..." A.J. Cummings was the legendary political editor of the Liberal-leaning News Chronicle. His Memorandum is addressed to: "Mr. Barry," [Later-Sir] Gerald Barry, another distinguished career journalist, who had just become Managing Editor of the the News Chronicle in 1936, after moving from the Weekend Review, which he had founded, and to their boss, Sir Walter Thomas Layton, Chairman of The News Chronicle from 1930-1950. Layton had been Churchill's statistical officer at the Ministry of Munitions during World War I and would run the Joint War Production staff from 1942-1943. The typescript is in very good condition.