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Churchill’s Sovereigns: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
09
Sep
2022
By DAVID DILKS
"Our Island no longer holds the same authority or power that it did in the days of Queen Victoria. A vast world towers up around it and after all our victories we could not claim the rank we hold were it not for the respect for our character and good sense... I regard it as the most direct mark of God’s favour we have ever received in my long life that the whole structure of our new-formed Commonwealth has been linked and illuminated by a sparkling presence at its summit." —WSC to The Queen, 1955
“Winston Churchill & The Queen,” by Oliver Williams
26
Jun
2023
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Much passed between The Queen and her first prime minister in their years of close association. But none of this is in the book, and Churchill’s quoted words are few. Instead, we get a hodgepodge of paraphrase, opinion, false trails, red herrings and off-the-wall pronouncements which sidetrack the story and will throw off the unwary.
1914: Churchill’s Try for Peace
22
Jan
2016
By MAX E. HERTWIG
Churchill’s faith in personal diplomacy—solving intractable problems by meetings at the highest level—was famously expressed during his World War II meetings with Stalin and Roosevelt. It surfaced again in 1953-55, when he strove unsuccessfully to promote what he called “a meeting at the summit” with Eisenhower and Stalin’s successors. Less widely known, however, is Churchill’s 1914 proposal for a “conference of sovereigns” or heads of state (including, it seems, French President Raymond Poincaré) in an effort to head-off World War I. The scheme failed, but certainly not for Churchill’s lack of trying.