Thomas's Use of Declaration Preamble

[Richard D. Friedman]

At 05:30 PM 8/10/00 -0700, John Eastman  wrote:
>When criticized for entering into an alliance with Stalin, Winston Churchill
>reportedly said that he would make a pact with the devil in order to defeat
>Hitler.  He exaggerated, of course, for however bad Hitler was, a pact
with the devil
>would be worse.

I don't think he went quite so far.  I think he said that if Hitler marched
into hell he would feel constrained to say a kind word about the devil in
the House of Commons.

Rich Friedman