James Holland

And this is where he comes up with the famous... Well, let's summon him once more from the other world.

Let me give you an illustration.

Suppose my neighbor's home catches fire and I have a length of garden hose four or five hundred feet away.

If he can take my garden hose and connect it up to his hydrant, I may be able to help put out his fire.

Now what do I do?

I don't say to him before that operation, neighbor, my garden hose cost me $15.

You have to pay me $15 for it.

No, you just hand it over and sort it out later.

Well, of course, because at this point, the Soviets are still in cahoots with the Nazis.

It's brilliant.

It's showing extreme Machiavellian political acumen, I would say.

Yeah, but if you're going to be unconstitutional, do it for the moral good, not for personal gain.

That's my point.

Yes, this is his far side chat.

The experience of the past two years has proven beyond doubt that no nation can appease the Nazis.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness.

There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

We know now that a nation can have peace with the Nazis at the price of total surrender.

So what he's doing is he's... So the press conference of the 17th of December and then his fireside chat.