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Sir Winston Churchill Bust - Maurice Lambert RA, 1938
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The Armoury of St. James's
Pickup available, usually ready in 2 hours17 Piccadilly Arcade
London SW1Y 6NH
United Kingdom
Height overall: 30cm (11.8in)
Patinated bronze. Signed and dated ‘ML A/P [artist’s proof] 1938’ on the base. Raised on an integral bronze base. Height of head: 21cm (8.2in).
The present bust was created in 1938, when Churchill, out of office and favour, fulfilled his contractual obligations to his publisher with the fourth and final volume of his ‘Life of Marlborough’. It was the year of ‘The Gathering Storm’ and it began with the resignation of Anthony Eden as Foreign Secretary in protest to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Fascist Italy - a policy which Chamberlain was extending towards Hitler. Churchill warned the government against appeasement and called for collective action to deter German aggression. Following the Anschluss, Churchill spoke in the House of Commons: “A country like ours, possessed of immense territory and wealth, whose defence has been neglected, cannot avoid war by dilating upon its horrors, or even by a continuous display of pacific qualities, or by ignoring the fate of the victims of aggression elsewhere. War will be avoided, in present circumstances, only by the accumulation of deterrents against the aggressor.”
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