http://www.historynet.com/churchill-imagines-how-the-south-won-the-civil-war.htm said:
Churchills imagination didnt stop there. When tensions arose between the North and the South, he wrote, Lee created a diversion by sending the Confederate army to conquer Mexico in three years of bloody guerrilla war. At the turn of the 20th century, affairs beyond the oceans began to present graver threats. In his fable, Churchill explains how Prime Minister Arthur Balfour and President Theodore Roosevelt met to discuss a moral and psychological union. Once President Woodrow Wilson of the Confederacy joined the effort, this august triumvirate agreed to the Covenant of the English-Speaking Association on Christmas Day 1905.
The association adopted peace and international disarmament as its cause. But its voice was unheeded as the European powers began to mobilize for war in 1914. Calling for peace, it urged all nations to halt their armies at least 10 miles from their borders. If they did not, the association would consider itself ipso facto at war with any power
whose troops invaded the territory of its neighbor.
The combined influence of Britain and America brought breathing space to Europe. The armies backed away. Thus World War Iwhich might well have led to the loss of many millions of lives, and to the destruction of capital that twenty years of toil, thrift and privation could not have replacednever came to pass.
