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Hillsdale Dialogues

Churchill’s The Second World War, Part Fifteen

Hillsdale Dialogues

Hillsdale College

Education

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues to continue a series on The Second World War, Churchill's sprawling memoir and history of World War II in six volumes.

Release date: 19 December 2025

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0:00.0

Every week, Hillsdale College President Larry Arne joins Hugh Hewitt to discuss great books,

0:11.1

great men, and great ideas. This is Hillsdale Dialogues, part of the Hillsdale College

0:18.1

Podcast Network. More episodes at podcast.

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Hillsdale.edu or wherever you find your audio.

0:31.4

Morning and glory, evening, Grace, America.

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I'm Hugh Hewitt.

0:34.5

You're listening to Hillsdale Dialogue,

0:36.0

all things, Hillsdale at Hillsdale. Uh, doctor, unless I fall way out of whack, I have to turn to the tragedy of Munich.

0:46.4

And the tragedy of Munich is its own thing. And I wanted to, I pointed out when I sent you my

0:52.8

notes that you might want to read parts of page

0:55.9

287 to 288. Give me a few words in the passage you mean. It begins, it may well, it may be well

1:03.4

here to set down some principles of morals of action, which may be a guide to the future. It's at

1:08.7

the end of the tragedy of Munich. Okay, I got it. Yeah, this is classic Churchill right here. It may be a guide to the future. It's at the end of the tragedy of Munich. Okay, I got it. Yeah, this is

1:12.4

classic Churchill right here. It may be well here to set down some principles of morals and

1:17.1

action which may be a guide in the future. No case of this kind can be judge apart from the

1:22.3

circumstances. The facts may be unknown at the time and estimates of them must be largely guesswork,

1:28.8

colored by the general feeling and aims of whoever is trying to pronounce.

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Those who are prone by temperament and character to seek sharp and clear-cut solutions

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of difficult and obscure problems, who are ready to fight whenever some challenge comes from

1:42.5

a foreign power, have not always been

1:44.9

right. On the other hand, those whose inclination is to bow their heads to seek patiently and

1:50.2

faithfully for peaceful compromise are not always wrong. On the contrary, in the majority of

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