What Churchill gave was moral authority, belief in values, and faith in the rightness of rational action.
The last reality of the thirties, which The End of Economic Man clearly conveys, is the total absence of leadership. The political stage was full of characters. Never before, it seems, had there been so many politicians, working so frenziedly. Quite a few of these politicians were decent men, some even very able ones. But excepting the twin Princes of Darkness, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, they were all pathetically small men; even mediocrities were conspicuous by their absence. “But,” today’s reader will protest, “there was Winston Churchill.” To be sure, Churchill’s emergence as the leader in Europe’s ...
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