id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5124 Winston Churchill - Wikipedia .html text/html 32936 4670 76 After Hitler came to power on 30 January 1933, Churchill was quick to recognise the menace to civilisation of such a regime and expressed alarm that the British government had reduced air force spending and warned that Germany would soon overtake Britain in air force production.[249][250] Armed with official data provided clandestinely by two senior civil servants, Desmond Morton and Ralph Wigram, Churchill was able to speak with authority about what was happening in Germany, especially the development of the Luftwaffe.[251] He told the people of his concerns in a radio broadcast in November 1934.[252] While Churchill regarded Mussolini's regime as a bulwark against the perceived threat of communist revolution, he opposed the Italian invasion of Ethiopia.[253] Writing about the Spanish Civil War, he referred to Franco's army as the "anti-red movement", but later became critical of Franco.[254] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5124.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5124.txt