The impression I got from a recent biography of Churchill was that he was very concerned, and made constant reference to, the risk of something like value lock-in should the Axis powers win WW2 - i.e. that it stood a chance of being a near-irreversible dampening of future human potential, not just a terrible catastrophe for the people alive at the time. Perhaps that attitude is connected to these other statements of his.
The impression I got from a recent biography of Churchill was that he was very concerned, and made constant reference to, the risk of something like value lock-in should the Axis powers win WW2 - i.e. that it stood a chance of being a near-irreversible dampening of future human potential, not just a terrible catastrophe for the people alive at the time. Perhaps that attitude is connected to these other statements of his.