09 February 2014

Quote for the day

Rico says his friend Kelley, also a history nut, forwards this:

The Pope! How many divisions has he got?

Said sarcastically by Stalin to Pierre Laval in 1935, in response to being asked whether he could do anything with Russian Catholics to help Laval win favor with the Pope, to counter the increasing threat of Nazism; as quoted in The Second World War (1948) by Winston Churchill, vol. 1, ch. 8, p. 105.

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