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Churchill in WWI
Great Contemporaries: Asquith: The Last Victorian Liberal (2)
06
Mar
2023
By RAYMOND A. CALLAHAN
“Asquith fell when the enormous task was but half completed. He fell with dignity. He bore adversity with composure. In or out of power, disinterested patriotism and inflexible integrity were his only guides. Let it never be forgotten that he was always on his country's side in all her perils, and that he never hesitated to sacrifice his personal or political interests to the national cause.” —Churchill
Great Contemporaries: Churchill in the Age of Lloyd George (Part 2)
07
Jun
2022
By RAYMOND A. CALLAHAN
The first thing to know about Lloyd George’s premiership is that it destroyed the Liberal Party. Internecine fighting opened the door for the Labour Party (which joined the wartime coalition). A few years later, moving from minor third-party status, Labour formed a government. The Liberals would never govern again.
Great Contemporaries: Georges Clemenceau (2), The Statesman
10
Feb
2022
By PAUL A. ALKON
“He represented the French people risen against tyrants—tyrants of the mind, tyrants of the soul, tyrants of the body; foreign tyrants, domestic tyrants, swindlers, humbugs, grafters, traitors, invaders, defeatists—all lay within the bound of the Tiger; and against them the Tiger waged inexorable war. Anti-clerical, anti-monarchist, anti-Communist, anti-German—in all this he represented the dominant spirit of France.”
Great Contemporaries: Georges Clemenceau, Tiger of France (1)
16
Dec
2021
Remembering Richard Haking: The General who Saved Churchill’s Life
10
Sep
2020
1
By H. ASHLEY REDBURN
Unknowingly, General Haking assisted in one of the narrowest of Churchill’s many escapes from death. “Over me,” said WSC, “beat the invisible wings.”
Winston Churchill’s Statesmanship before the First World War, 1912-14
28
Aug
2020
By JOSHUA WAECHTER
Prudence, Aristotle’s primary quality of statesmen was well demonstrated by Churchill at the Admiralty in the years leading up to the First World War.
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Churchill: A Million Allied Soldiers to Fight for the White Russians?
21
Nov
2019
Churchill’s Character: Preparedness. The Agadir Crisis.
30
Apr
2019
Armistice Day: Centenary of the End of the Great War
04
Apr
2019
By WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
The war was over. Was it a chapter in a cruel and senseless story? Or would we unite our genius “in safety and freedom”? We now know the answer.
Churchill and the HMS Enchantress
17
Jun
2016
6
By FRED GLUECKSTEIN
HMS Enchantress was Churchill’s personal transport as First Lord of the Admiralty, 1911-14. Like most of his luxuries, it served also as a focus for work. During his time aboard the vessel, Churchill would visit hundreds of naval establishments and ships in the British Isles and the Mediterranean.
No Peace Till Victory
07
Mar
2016
1914: Churchill’s Try for Peace
22
Jan
2016
By MAX E. HERTWIG
Churchill’s faith in personal diplomacy—solving intractable problems by meetings at the highest level—was famously expressed during his World War II meetings with Stalin and Roosevelt. It surfaced again in 1953-55, when he strove unsuccessfully to promote what he called “a meeting at the summit” with Eisenhower and Stalin’s successors. Less widely known, however, is Churchill’s 1914 proposal for a “conference of sovereigns” or heads of state (including, it seems, French President Raymond Poincaré) in an effort to head-off World War I. The scheme failed, but certainly not for Churchill’s lack of trying.