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Great Contemporaries: Philip Sassoon – A Friend at the End of an Era
Throwback to vanished age, Sassoon served his country in war and peace, and entertained the glitterati at his palatial mansions. He died too young.
Churchill and the Presidents: Dwight Eisenhower, Sentiment and Politics
In wartime, Eisenhower related to Churchill as junior to senior. As President, the relationship vastly changed, but ties of sentiment were still there.
“The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists.” Not WSC.
Churchill never said this: he was far too fastidious to apply such a term generically. He knew his fascists, and identified them more specifically.
Churchill and His Autumn Years: Ways to Live a Long life
The “golden years” are not always golden, but Winston Churchill’s long life offers perspective and encouragement to those of “a certain age.”
Churchill and the Litigious Alfred Douglas: Two Trials and a Sonnet (Part 2)
How Lord Alfred Douglas was convicted and sent to jail, but was mollified by later events; how he praised his former enemy, and was forgiven.
Hearsay Doesn’t Count: The Truth about Churchill’s “Racist Epithets”
Churchill's racial epithets were extremely rare. Most of the few that do exist come from only one source—which leads one to question how reliable it is.
Churchill and the Litigious Lord Alfred: Two Trials and a Sonnet (Part 1)
How Winston Churchill was invited to opine, and Lord Alfred Douglas was affronted by what he saw as an obvious conspiracy with Jewish financiers.
Painting à deux: Churchill’s and Alexander’s Portraits of Lake Como, 1945
Churchill rarely painted scene with someone else, and only once with a field marshal. Their Lake Como oils offer a glimpse of friendship and technique.
Great Contemporaries: Sir Harold Alexander, Churchill’s Favorite General
Among his generals, Churchill thought Alexander “the best we had.” Alex for his part was ever faithful, saying, “I can’t simply refuse Winston.”
Stop this Trashing of our Monuments — and of our Past
If we allow our monuments and memorials and place-names to be torn down because of our present-day views, it speaks to a pathetic lack of confidence in ourselves.