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Feeding the Crocodile, Belgium, 1940: Was King Leopold Guilty?
13
Oct
2017
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Daniel Wybo requested this essay on King Leopold and Churchill’s remarks about the May 1940 Belgian surrender. Mr. Wybo’s interest is through his father, who fought in the battle to defend the canal at Ghent-Terneuzen. Taken prisoner by the Germans, the elder Wybo escaped and became part of the Belgian underground. “My father was always bitter about how our King was treated,” Mr. Wybo writes. “He was distressed by the great lies propagated about his actions.” Churchill, it will be seen, tried to correct the worst of those lies.
A Century and More of Churchill Art
09
Oct
2017
Jonathan Black's book provides some interesting glimpses into Churchill's life and personality in art, though one has to wade through some disorganization to find said moments. With some guidance and revision, his book might have captured a more accurate portrayal of the titan of many moods and many faces.
“Leading Lives: Winston Churchill” – by Fiona Reynoldson
02
Oct
2017
Fiona Reynoldson’s "Winston Churchill", for ages 8-15, is far and away the best juvenile ever published, anywhere, by anybody. Throughout, the author delivers unadulterated, factual information. One wouldn’t expect so much wisdom to be so attractively wedged into sixty-four pages. We should all buy five copies and get them into the hands of schools, libraries and young people of promise.
Churchill and the Baltic, Part 3
02
Oct
2017
Baltic historians tend to see British prewar policy toward Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in a narrow light. They want to see Britain coldly abandoning the Baltics to Soviet rule and so that is what they find. Churchill however, would resist recognizing the Sovietized Baltic even when it was to his advantage after Russia joined the Allied forces in late 1941 and 1942.
Abstracts: Churchill and the Iron Curtain Speech, Part 2
02
Oct
2017
Winston Churchill as Sancho Panza?
02
Oct
2017
Great Contemporaries: Hilaire Belloc
25
Sep
2017
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Anti-statist, anti-collectivist and anti-establishment, Belloc deplored the servitude of the industrial wage-earner and longed to reconcile his two great loves, “the soil of England and the Catholic faith.” His book championed “distributism,“ a combination of broad land distribution, corporate organization of society, workers’ control of the means of production, decentralization of power, and Jeffersonian democracy comprising a property-owning electorate. Like Churchill, Belloc had traveled in America; it is odd that he never seemed to suggest that the United States, with its class mobility and broad property ownership, came remarkably close to his vision.
War of the Unknown Warriors: As Heard in 1940
25
Sep
2017
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