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Great Contemporaries: Archibald Sinclair, the Last War Casualty
28
Feb
2021
Sinclair aging: “He did so much and worried so greatly on account of the boys who lost their lives…no wonder that he is now a war casualty.”
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Archibald Sinclair,
Arthur Greenwood,
Arthur Tedder,
Battle of Moreuil Wood,
Bradley P. Tolppanen,
Charles Portal,
Clement Attlee,
Cyril Newall,
Edward Halifax,
Edward Spears,
Gerard De Groot,
H.H. Asquith,
Harold Macmillan,
Hugh Dowding,
Jack Seely,
Leopold Amery,
Max Beaverbrook,
Munich,
Neville Chamberlain,
Ottawa Conference,
Sholto Douglas,
Stanley Baldwin,
The Other Club,
Winston S. Churchill,
Great Contemporaries: Harry Hopkins: “Lord Root of the Matter”
25
Feb
2021
Hopkins to Churchill, 1942: “‘Where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God’…Even to the end.”
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Alan Brooke,
Alfred Wedemeyer,
Archibald MacLeish,
Brendan Bracken,
Christopher C. Harmon,
Cordell Hull,
Edwin “Pa” Watson,
Eleanor Roosevelt,
Ernest King,
Franklin Roosevelt,
George Marshall,
Harry Hopkins,
Henry Stimson,
James Byrnes,
John Winant,
Joseph Kennedy,
New Deal,
Pamela Harriman,
Robert Sherwood,
Wedemeyer,
William Leahy,
Winston S. Churchill,
Yalta Conference,
Book of the Year: Paul Rafferty on Churchill’s “Paintatious” Riviera
21
Feb
2021
Paul Rafferty has followed Churchill’s footsteps through his favorite landscapes in an elegant documentary that has no peer in its field.
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Alfred Munnings,
Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan,
Daisy Fellowes,
Emery Reves,
Harold Alexander,
Hazel Lavery,
John Lavery,
Lord Rothermere,
Max Beaverbrook,
Maxine Elliott,
Paul Rafferty,
Ralph Curtis,
Richard M. Langworth,
Wendy Reves,
William Nicholson,
William Rootes,
Willy Sax,
Winston S. Churchill,
Churchill’s Novel “Savrola”, Part 1: Polestar of a Statesman’s Philosophy
18
Feb
2021
Savrola voices Churchill’s fundamental political and ethical principles at the very moment when he settled on them for the rest of his life.
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A.L. Rowse,
Anthony Hope,
Aristotle,
Arthur Schopenhauer,
Benjamin Disraeli,
Edward Bulwer-Lytton,
Edward Gibbon,
H. Rider Haggard,
J.E.C. Welldon,
James Welldon,
Joseph Conrad,
Lady Randolph Churchill,
Munich crisis,
Patrick J.C. Powers,
Plato,
Savrola,
Socrates,
Thomas Babington Macaulay,
Winston S. Churchill,
William Nester Offers a Valuable Study of Churchill’s Statesmanship
13
Feb
2021
The Churchill revealed by Nester is a model of statesmanship: prescient and competent, but accompanied by certain errors of strategy.
Churchill’s Britain: So Much More Still Needs to Be Done
10
Feb
2021
Neither a travelogue nor a general reader, this is about “people and places,” mostly people, not a comprehensive guide to Churchill’s Britain.
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Bristol,
Churchill Barriers,
Churchill College,
Churchill’s Britain,
Churchill’s London,
Dukes of Marlborough,
Dundee,
Epping,
H.H. Asquith,
London Magazine,
Lord Randolph Churchill,
Ministry of Munitions,
National Liberal Club,
Oldham,
Peter Clark,
Plymouth,
Scapa Flow,
Scotland,
Violet Bonham Carter,
West Country,
Winston S. Churchill,
Woodford,
Woodstock,
Yorkshire,
“The Social Dilemma” and Churchill’s “Mass Effects in Modern Life”
04
Feb
2021
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An alarming documentary on “The Social Dilemma” strikes parallels with Churchill’s similar warnings about technological revolution.
Why Calgary Needs a Statue of Sir Winston Churchill
03
Feb
2021
The Calgary Churchill statue will celebrate Sir Winston’s prescience in peace, resolution in war, and lifetime quest for liberty and human rights.
The Effects of Race and Caste on Relief in the Bengal Famine, 1943-44
29
Jan
2021
1
Communalization and politicization of food during the Bengal famine widened the chasm in Bengali society along the lines of religion.
Churchill and the Genocide Myth: Last Word on the Bengal Famine
27
Jan
2021
Famine and Relief: Far from seeking to starve India, Churchill sought every possible way to alleviate the suffering without undermining the war effort.
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Amartya Sen,
Archibald Wavell,
Bengal famine,
India,
Indian Congress,
Leopold Amery,
Madhusree Mukerjee,
Mahasabha,
Mohandas Gandhi,
Muslim League,
Pakistan,
Quit India Movement,
Ramaswamy Mudaliar,
Stafford Cripps,
Subhas Chandra Bose,
Tirthankar Roy,
Victor Hope Lord Linlithgow,
Winston S. Churchill,
Zareer Masani,
A Doctor’s Tale: Lord Moran and Churchill’s Medical History
24
Jan
2021
How accurate were Churchill’s doctor’s diaries? Lord Moran was a skillful and devoted physician, less fastidious as a recorder of events.
Great Contemporaries: Eamon de Valera and a Long, Fraught Relationship
22
Jan
2021
Winston Churchill was not a man to bear grudges, and firmly admired the Irish. Yet he was strangely oblivious to the widespread, albeit not universal, hostility still felt towards him in nationalist Ireland. In 1953 he faced a libel action in Ireland arising out of his memoirs. It was brought by Eric Dorman-Smith, an Irish-born general whom he had dismissed during the Desert War. He expressed doubt that “an Irish jury would necessarily be unfair or that they would be prejudiced against me.” His legal advisers knew better. They made sure the case was settled before it got to be heard before a jury in Dublin. When Churchill died in 1965, de Valera, now President of Ireland, lauded him as a great Englishman. He could not omit to add the rider that Churchill had been a “dangerous enemy” of the Irish people.