Michael Collins: “Tell Winston we could never have done anything without him”
winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu
WSC on Collins: “Though...there was a certain gulf between us—we never to the best of my belief lost the basis of a common understanding.”
The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/UndyingCorn on 2024-12-05 10:25:22.

Original Title: TIL During negotiations for the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, Michael Collins complained to Winston Churchill about the British putting a price on his head. Churchill defused the situation by joking that he also once had a reward offered for his capture during the Boer War after he escaped a POW camp.