| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 2054 |
| AUTHOR: | Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965) |
| QUOTATION: | Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | WINSTON CHURCHILL, “The Rape of Austria,” letter, July 6, 1938.—Churchill, Step by Step, 1936–1939, p. 262 (1939).
This volume is a compilation of the fortnightly letters he wrote from 1936–1939, mainly on foreign policy and defense. |
| SUBJECTS: | World War II (1939–1945) |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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