QUOTE : I have opposed you as hard as I knew how,’ it read. ‘I want to say only this. You warned us repeatedly about the German danger and you were right . . . Please don’t think of replying – you are in all conscience busy enough in an office which we are all glad that you hold in this time of Britain’s danger.’124 Churchill of course did reply, accepting the apology and adding, ‘I certainly think that Englishmen ought to stand fair with each other from the outset in so grievous a struggle, and so far as I am concerned the past is dead.