All one could do in 1939 was pray and hope.
But this is hindsight. Winston Churchill appears in The End of Economic Man and is treated with great respect. Indeed, reading now what I then wrote, I suspect that I secretly hoped that Churchill would indeed emerge into leadership. I also never fell for the ersatz leaders to whom a good many well-informed contemporaries—a good many members of Franklin Roosevelt’s entourage in Washington, for instance—looked for deliverance. Yet in 1939 Churchill was a might-have-been: a powerless old man rapidly approaching seventy; a Cassandra who bored his listeners in spite (or perhaps because) of his impassioned rhetoric; a two-time loser who, however magnificent in opposition, ...
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