By Miranda Aldersley For Mailonline
Published: 15:07 BST, 10 June 2019 | Updated: 15:44 BST, 10 June 2019
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A no-holds-barred letter from John F. Kennedy to Sir Winston Churchill's son has come to light 67 years after it was written.
The future U.S. president fired back at Randolph Churchill after the British politician publicly denounced America's 'holier-than-thou' attitude over the infamous 1938 Munich Agreement.
The treaty for peace in Europe in exchange for Germany reclaiming the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia was later broken by Adolf Hitler, leading to the Second World War.
A letter from John F. Kennedy to Randolph Churchill is going up for auction on Wednesday in the U.S, in which Kennedy accused Britain of showing 'tardiness' towards rearming in the interwar years
Randolph Churchill (right) publicly criticized America's 'holier than thou' attitude over the 1938 Munich Agreement, prompting a letter of response from the future President (left)
Kennedy took umbrage at Churchill's claim that the US had as much responsibility to protect Czechoslovakia from the Nazis as Britain did at the time.
Writing on June 13, 1952 - eight years before he was elected President - Kennedy argued that Britain and France had far closer ties to the country.
Kennedy also accused Britain of showing 'tardiness' towards rearming against the threat of the Nazis and said the country pursued appeasement with Hitler as it brought it more time to prepare for war.
The four-page letter came on top of Kennedy's 1940 thesis titled 'Why England Slept' which examined Britain's perceived failure to respond to German aggression after World War One.
In the draft letter sent to Time magazine, he
