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Churchill and the Clash of Tyrants: Did the Soviets Really Win WW2?
The Soviets contributed mightily to victory, but their success was owed to Churchill and Roosevelt, who provided crucial aid and kept Japan occupied.
Great Contemporaries: Richard Haldane, “Prodigy, Paragon and Philosopher-Statesman”
With his many achievements, Haldane stood as warning that the apex of politics, there was no such thing as friendship. Except perhaps with Churchill.
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.