Churchill (e Woodrow Wilson)

"As First Lord of the Admiralty in World War I, he supervised the British hunger blockade of Germany. By endeavoring to starve the German population, Churchill hoped to undermine the German war machine from within.

The British blockade," Churchill later wrote, "treated the
whole of Germany as if it were a beleaguered fortress, and avowedly sought
to starve the whole population — men, women, and children, old and young,
wounded and sound into submission.(p. 2)

The armistice of November 11, 1918 did not bring the blockade to an end. Churchill continued it until the Germans signed the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 [mais 6 meses de bloqueio alimentar já depois do Kaiser ter retirado as tropas e aceite os 14 pontos de Wilson ... depois este obriga o Kaiser e os Habsburgos a abdicarem e é a República de Weimar que assina um não-tratado imposto pela fome ... onde é que se pensa que o nazismo nasce?] . He said on March 3, 1919,

We are enforcing the blockade with rigour… It is repugnant to the British
nation to use this weapon of starvation, which falls mainly on the women and
children, upon the old and the weak and the poor, after all the fighting has
stopped, one moment longer than is necessary to secure the just terms for which
we have fought

. (pp. 5–6). David Gordon Review of Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization. By Nicholson Baker. Simon & Schuster, 2008. 566 pages.]