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Churchill on Amritsar: An Imperialist Speaks Out for Human Rights
12
Aug
2022
1
By Martin Gilbert
“What I mean by frightfulness is the inflicting of great slaughter or massacre upon a particular crowd of people, with the intention of terrorising not merely the rest of the crowd, but the whole district or the whole country. We cannot admit this doctrine in any form. Frightfulness is not a remedy known to the British pharmacopoeia.” —WSC
“Fighting Retreat” by Walter Reid: Did Churchill Really Hate India?
26
Feb
2024
By ZAREER MASANI
The promise of Dominion status required only that Congress, the Muslim League and the princes agree on power-sharing at a federal Centre. To blame Churchill for the internal divisions that obstructed such a coalition obfuscates reality. A power-sharing deal between Nehru and Jinnah would have made nonsense of Churchill’s fears. Instead, India’s fragile imperial unity fell apart under majoritarian strains. That gave Churchill the dubious distinction of being proved right.
“The Cambridge Companion to Winston Churchill”: a Review
06
Jul
2023
By ANDREW ROBERTS
Academics revel in pointing out their subjects’ feet of clay, but all too often pay too little attention to the marble in the rest of the statue. This is a relatively new phenomenon. The words that free peoples employ in their defence of the liberty to express contested ideas will largely be those of Sir Winston Churchill: the subject—but sadly not the hero—of this book.
Abstract: Judging the British Empire by its Aims and Intentions
22
Mar
2023
By ZAREER MASANI
The costs and benefits of empire are not morally commensurate and incapable of being compared in those terms. Outcomes good and bad are historically and ethically complex. The best we can do is to make balanced moral judgments of the Empire’s aims and intentions, even if their execution was often flawed or the consequences sometimes unintended. As for the charge of imperial nostalgia, there can be none, since the British Empire, so long past, never can return.
Churchill and Company: Great Scholars Consider Uncancelled History
20
Mar
2023
1
By DOUGLAS MURRAY
“I will take away from Uncancelled History what the Hillsdale College historian Bill McClay said about Theodore Roosevelt, about some of these other historical figures who’ve been torn down, lambasted and attacked: History is like a great attic of belongings and inheritances. And if you chuck everything out of that attic—if you clear the whole thing—you might clear away things we may need some day.”
A New Gospel of Churchill Perfidy by Otto English
11
Nov
2022
By HERBERT ANDERSON
On the 1916 Western Front, English claims Churchill was miles away from the “real war,” never in any real danger, and an inept officer. But Martin Gilbert—whose books English cites—offered numerous instances of Churchill surviving German artillery or machine gun fire, and of leading soldiers into No Man’s Land. Soldiers who served with him had every reason to regard him as an aristocratic interloper. In the end they praised him to a man.
Great Contemporaries: The Age of Lloyd George (Part 4)
15
Sep
2022
By RAYMOND A. CALLAHAN
“David Lloyd George's personal failings are clear, but a historian’s verdict ought to be that, in utterly unprecedented situations, he rose very well to the challenges—and far better than any conceivable alternative leader. Overshadowed now by the memory of Churchill, he deserves respectful remembrance in his own right.”
What the Marxist Ali gets wrong about Winston Churchill
16
May
2022
1
Churchill for Today: What He Thought and Said about Terrorism (Part 1)
22
Feb
2022
1
By CHRISTOPHER C. HARMON
Churchill: "What I mean by frightfulness is the inflicting of great slaughter or massacre upon a particular crowd of people, with the intention of terrorizing not merely the rest of the crowd, but the whole district or the whole country. We cannot admit this doctrine in any form. Frightfulness is not a remedy known to the British pharmacopoeia.”
Churchill on South African Prison Camps, and Other Selective Quoting
12
Aug
2021
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
"The civilized combatant is obliged, at peril of being classed a savage, to avoid unnecessary cruelty to his enemy. Unless there has been unnecessary cruelty, whatever the suffering, there can be no barbarity. If there has been unnecessary cruelty, all who are in any way responsible for it are infected with the taint of inhumanity." —Churchill, 1901.
Cambridge: “The Racial Consequences of Mr. Churchill,” A Review
14
Mar
2021
3
By ANDREW ROBERTS and ZEWDITU GEBREYOHANES
A forensic examination and point-by-point of a Cambridge University panel on Churchill, race, the British Empire and the Second World War.
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What Did Churchill Say about Terrorism?
15
Apr
2016
1
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
"No country in the world is less fit for a conflict with terrorists than Great Britain. That is not because of her weakness or cowardice; it is because of her restraint and virtues, and the way of life which we have lived so long in this sheltered island." - Winston Churchill