Winnie the Warmonger
affair it continued to plague him. There was considerable opposition to his June 1917 appointment to Cabinet as Minister of Munitions. He proved very able in this capacity, increasing production by about 20 percent.
A year later the "war to end all wars" was over.
The postwar years saw Churchill involved with foreign affairs in two different Cabinet posts, Minister of Air and War and Colonial Secretary, unseated and reelected. It was a busy time for Churchill, made busier by his constant campaigning for vigilance about what he perceived to be the growing threat of Hitler, the Nazi party, and German rearmament.
British government policy towards Hitler, at the time, was one of appeasement -- later viewed as a policy of peace at any price, even at the expense of supposed allies and treaty commitments. Churchill's warnings earned him only ridicule and a reputation as a paranoid warmonger.
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