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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.”
Churchill and Shakespeare without Melodrama: A Response to Jonathan Rose
08
Sep
2020
Winston Churchill and the Armenian Genocide, 1914-23
05
Sep
2020
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Early in the 20th century, Armenian peoples suffered the greatest and bloodiest of all the great mass-slaughters which till then there was record.
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Chanak crisis,
chemical warfare,
David Lloyd George,
Enver Pasha,
Gallipoli,
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League of Nations,
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,
Ottoman Empire,
Paris Peace Conference,
Sir Henry Wilson,
Sultan Abdul Hamid II,
The Aftermath,
Theodore Roosevelt,
Treaty of Lausanne,
Treaty of Sèvres,
Turkey,
William Ewart Gladstone,
Winston S. Churchill,
woodrow wilson,
Young Turks,
In Defense of Graham Sutherland and his “Infamous” Churchill Portrait
03
Sep
2020
9
By DAVE TURRELL
Today, we need not flinch from the image. Sutherland saw a man behind the legend, reached deep, and gave us the man. The legend needed no portrait.
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Aneurin Bevan,
Anthony Montague Browne,
Charles Moran,
Churchill College,
Clementine Churchill,
Dave Turrell,
David McFall,
Dwight Eisenhower,
Georgy Malenkov,
Grace Hamblin,
Graham Sutherland,
Herbert Gunn,
Jennie Lee,
John Charmley,
King George VI,
Mary SOames,
Max Beaverbrook,
Omdurman,
Shane Leslie,
Somerset Maugham,
Winston S. Churchill,
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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Alfred von Tirpitz,
Aristotle,
Barbara Tuchman,
Battle of Jutland,
Benjamin Disraeli,
David Lloyd George,
Edward Grey,
First World War,
George Callaghan,
H.H. Asquith,
High Seas Fleet,
John Burns,
John Jellicoe,
John Morley,
Joshua Waechter,
Lord Salisbury,
Patrick Buchanan,
Royal Navy,
Triple Entente,
William Ewart Gladstone,
Winston S. Churchill,
How Winston Churchill Lost the 1945 British General Election
27
Aug
2020
4
America, Britain, Mossaddeq, and the Iranian Counter-Coup, 1953
19
Aug
2020
2
By SHAY KHATIRI
Americans were right to fear Mossaddeq, for his aim was to diminish freedom. They should, however, have imposed the same powerful pressure on the Shah further to liberalize Iran’s politics and evolve toward a constitutional democracy. Occasionally there were efforts to curb his excesses, but they were strong enough only to encourage his fundamentalist foes. America’s failure to push for a peaceful transition to a liberal state, combined with the Shah’s authoritarianism and too rapid modernizations, made the revolution of 1979 inevitable.
Great Contemporaries: T.E. Lawrence – No Greater Churchillian
15
Aug
2020
1
Churchill and the Clash of Tyrants: Did the Soviets Really Win WW2?
12
Aug
2020
2
By JOHN H. MAURER
The Soviets contributed mightily to victory, but their success was owed to Churchill and Roosevelt, who provided crucial aid and kept Japan occupied.
Great Contemporaries: Richard Haldane, “Prodigy, Paragon and Philosopher-Statesman”
05
Aug
2020
By ANDREW ROBERTS
With his many achievements, Haldane stood as warning that the apex of politics, there was no such thing as friendship. Except perhaps with Churchill.
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Andrew Bonar Law,
Andrew Roberts,
Beatrice Webb,
Edward Carson,
Edward Grey,
H.H. Asquith,
Haldane Mission,
Herbert Samuel,
John Morley,
Lord Beaverbrook,
Lord Northcliffe,
Prince Louis of Battenberg,
Richard Burdon Haldane,
Sidney Webb,
Stanley Buckmaster,
Winston S. Churchill,
Great Contemporaries: Philip Sassoon – A Friend at the End of an Era
01
Aug
2020
By FRED GLUECKSTEIN
Throwback to vanished age, Sassoon served his country in war and peace, and entertained the glitterati at his palatial mansions. He died too young.
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Anthony Eden,
David Lloyd George,
Douglas Haig,
Fred Glueckstein,
Gallipoli,
Gallipoli campaign,
John French,
Kenneth Clark,
Marthe Bibesco,
Philip Sassoon,
Philip Tilden,
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother,
Richard Tauber,
Robert Boothby,
Samuel Hoare,
Siegfried Sassoon,
Stanley Baldwin,
Winston S. Churchill,
Churchill and the Presidents: Dwight Eisenhower, Sentiment and Politics
23
Jul
2020
1
By WARREN F. KIMBALL
In wartime, Eisenhower related to Churchill as junior to senior. As President, the relationship vastly changed, but ties of sentiment were still there.
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1953 Bermuda Conference,
Anglo-Persian Oil Company,
Anthony Eden,
Battle of Gettysburg,
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Edgar Faure,
Harold Macmillan,
John Colville,
John Foster Dulles,
Joseph Stalin,
Klaus Larres,
Martin Gilbert,
Michael Howard,
Mohammad Mosaddegh,
Peter Boyle,
SHAEF,
Stephen Ambrose,
Winston S. Churchill,