Why the Turks Like Churchill

There is a long story of the friendly relations between Great Britain and Turkey. Across it is a terrible slash of the last war, when German intrigues and British and Turkish mistakes led to our being on opposite sides. We fought as brave and honourable opponents. But those days are done, and we and our American Allies are prepared to make vigorous exertions in order that we shall all be together.

Sir Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill, speaks at Hillsdale College on September 22, 2005 as part of the Distinguished Fellow Lecture Series.

An absorbing though densely written volume, this detailed political science narrative assesses personalities and both ideological and policy trends in the Conservative Party’s leadership since 1945. The book is divided into five main chapters and Churchill appears only briefly in the first (with the end of his wartime government and the 1951-55 administration) and then fades from view. For this reason it is of limited importance to Churchill scholars, though it reflects thoughtfully on how his successors handled his legacy.

Churchill's speech, given at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, marked the advent of the Cold War between Russia and the West. Churchill’s message was twofold: both a warning of dangers of renewed conflict after World War II, and an outstretched hand seeking peace and stability.

William McKinley was the first president Churchill met and the last he covered in his History of the English-Speaking Peoples. In the 1896 election McKinley ran on the gold standard, while his populist opponent, William Jennings Bryan, declared that he would not let bankers “crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”

Since the early 1990s it has been stated and endlessly repeated that Winston Churchill said Alan Turing OBE FRS (1912-1954) “made the single biggest contribution to Allied victory in the war against Nazi Germany.” Turing’s contribution was indeed great, but there is no record of Churchill having issued such a singular encomium.

Q: What are the best works to read for information on Churchill at the Admiralty before World War I, specifically his decision to convert the Fleet from coal to oil?

"I move that the following resolution be cabled from the meeting as a greeting to the President and people of the United States of America: This meeting of the Anglo-Saxon Fellowship assembled in London on the 4th of July, 1918, send to the President and people of the United States their heartfelt greetings on the 142nd anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence. They rejoice that the love of liberty and justice on which the American nation was founded should in the present time of trial have united the whole English-speaking family in a brotherhood of arms."

Sir Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill, speaks at Hillsdale College on September 7, 2006 as part of the Distinguished Fellow Lecture Series.

Churchill’s tour of the ruined Chancellery was a personal triumph, but his empathy for humanity gave him no

Knowing she would be too proud to accept a lift, Churchill shouted encouragement: “Come on Alice, you can do better than that!” “G’wan, you fat old man, you get out of that car and walk yourself, you’ll live longer!” Alice retorted.

Both would switch parties. Both would achieve the highest office. Both would win a Nobel Prize. TR was, incidentally, the most prolific presidential book writer, with 18 (Nixon 12), against Churchill’s fifty-one, though Roosevelt wrote mostly about hunting and outdoor life.