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"But now one can see how lucky I was. Over me beat the invisible wings."
(Churchill in "The Gathering Storm")
After World War I Churchill lost his seat in Parliament in the 1922 elections. It was 22 years after he had been first elected as a Member of Parliament.
\" In the twinkling of one eye, I found myself without an office, without a seat, without a party and without an appendix.\"
In the next two years he was out of parliament. He returned to write again. The result was "A World Crisis", a six volume account of World War I. After that (earning a lot of money) he bought a large country house near Westerham, Kent - called Chartwell.
In October 1924 were the General Elections and Winston Churchill had his "Comeback". He received a seat in Parliament. He still belonged to the Liberal Party, but he noticed, that the Liberal Party don´t agree with his politics. And so, once again, he bacame a Conservative.
The Conservative held the majority of seats in this parliament and Baldwin was Prime Minister. He made Churchill the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Churchill was a fine leader but he was not a financial expert.
At the General Election in 1929, the Labour party gained a victory and Churchill kept his Conservative seat. During this period Churchill wrote one of his most important books. It was a biography in four volumes of his ancestor , the first Duke of Marlborough - "Marlborough, his Life and Times" .
In these years, when Churchill seemed to be a figure in the background of politics, he still held his own opinions and meant that Germany′s rising power was a danger. But nobody took him seriously. He, now a 55-years old man was, in the eyes of his conservative fellow politicians, a romantic reactionary, who don´t understand what happen in this time. He remained as a conservative member of parliament. As a serious politician he was finished.
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