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Woodrow Wilson was the kind of president we Americans elect from time to time, out of idealism or sentiment or wishful thinking, who proves inexperienced or unqualified—who fails, as Churchill put it, to “rise to the level of events.” Biographer Arthur Link described Wilson as “a virtuoso and a spellbinder during a time when the American people admired oratory above all other political skills.” But he was a party, not a national, leader.

Having been the guinea pig on whom these modernized Landemare recipes were tested before publication, I found myself like Churchill “quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.”

Anyone who believes that Churchill was an enthusiast of lethal gas must produce better evidence than we have seen so far—and some acceptable explanation for the many instances when, faced with its possible use, Churchill and his commanders demurred. While he never advocated the first use of lethal gas, Churchill's main aim in both world wars was victory. To that end he would consider almost anything. Describing the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 he had written similarly: "At the Admiralty we were in hot pursuit of most of the great key inventions and ideas of the war.... all were being actively driven forward or developed. Poison gas alone we had put aside—but not, as has been shown, from want of comprehension."

Churchill took over the Colonial Office three weeks before Harding took over the White House.

This quotation is now going around the web attrib­uted to Churchill. Is it accu­rate? “Social­ism is a phi­los­o­phy of fail­ure, the creed of igno­rance, and the gospel of envy, its inher­ent virtue is the equal shar­ing of misery.”

In the position in which our small band of friends now is it is a great mistake ever to take points off one another. The only rule is: Help each other when you can, but never harm. Never help the Bear.

Here is an examination of that brainchild in the fertile mind of Winston Churchill: the Royal Naval Division. Unique in military history, the RND was a hybrid unit of seamen serving as infantry alongside soldiers of the British Army.

Churchill uses this phrase in The Gathering Storm1 nine times. Consider each instance and whether in fact there was doubt, as some of his critics have alleged.

he long relationship began in 1897 when the young army officer wrote his first article (or letter) from the field, along the Afghan/Indian frontier. It culminated with The Telegraph’s extensive coverage of Churchill’s funeral in 1965.

Churchill wrote that this was “a severe and improvident condition for both borrower and lender. ‘They hired the money, didn't they?’ said President Coolidge. This laconic statement was true, but not exhaustive,”

Q: After the Battle of Omdurman in 1898, Churchill provided skin from his left forearm to one Dick Molyneux. Do you know what happened to him?