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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1913
AUTHOR: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965)
QUOTATION: The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.
ATTRIBUTION: WINSTON CHURCHILL, comment on May 7, 1945, after General Ismay, his wartime chief of staff, announced the news of V-E Day.—Kay Halle, Irrepressible Churchill, p. 249 (1966).
SUBJECTS: War