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Churchill’s Character
Reporting Churchill: “They’re an Awful Bunch of Wolves…”
31
Oct
2023
By RON CYNEWULF ROBBINS
“He did not speak rapidly, but the richness of his phrases proved demanding. We were exuberant, almost festive, whenever Churchill was our assignment. I cherish my recollection of the tumultuous reception we gave him at a Press Gallery dinner. ‘I am among my pals tonight,’ he said and raised a glass. That was his entire speech.”
Band of Brothers: Austen and Neville Chamberlain, and Their Eulogists
16
Jun
2022
By DAVE TURRELL
All are all now firmly established in the great pantheon of the House of Commons. All experienced failure, engendered controversy, still do, and always will. In death, all passion spent, they can be evaluated for the characters that lay beneath their politics. And, in common, a deep seam of basic decency can be found.
Harold Begbie: “The Man Who Did God for the Westminster Gazette”
11
Mar
2021
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
"All Mr. Churchill needs is the direction in his life of a great idea. He is a Saul on the way to Damascus. Let him swing clean away from that road to destruction and he might well become Paul on his way to immortality. This is to say, that to be saved from himself. Mr. Churchill must be carried away by enthusiasm for some great ideal." —Harold Begbie, 1921
Churchill’s Character: Hardiness, Resilience and Personal Toughness
11
Mar
2019
By JOHN H. MATHER, MD
Speaking of Britain and its Empire in 1941, Winston Churchill said: “We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.”1 A few weeks earlier he had advised the boys at Harrow School: “Never give in—never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”2 The image he conveyed is one of hardiness and personal toughness, and it galvanized his countrymen. Yet we rarely give thought to where he found the hardiness and resilience he conveyed.
Churchill’s Character: A Rigid Daily Schedule
06
Feb
2019
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Necessary Risk: Churchill at the Front. Brendan Bracken’s Defense
11
Dec
2017
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Churchill’s impulse to be “on the scene” where battles took place was not uniformly applauded. During World War II, his frequent excursions to various fronts worried his supporters, and caused critics to complain that he was taking unnecessary risk. Criticism mounted when Churchill hied to France only six days after D-Day. He revisited the front several times through March 1945.
Churchill and the “Wizard War,” Part 1
02
Mar
2017
Churchill and the “Wizard War,” Part 2
01
Mar
2017
Churchill’s Character: Sense of Duty
27
Jun
2016
Churchill’s Character: Berlin, 1945 – “In Victory, Magnanimity”
01
Jul
2015
Churchill’s Character: The Common Touch
01
Jul
2015
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