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Great Contemporaries: Anthony Eden (Part 1), 1897-1934
18
Mar
2022
By FRED GLUECKSTEIN
Anthony Eden shared Free Trade principles, but was at first a Churchill critic. During the Dardanelles Campaign he wrote: “Why can’t W. Churchill look [Navy ships] instead of making strategical plans about which he knows nothing about at all?” Later they became allies, Eden remarking on Churchill’s “masterly performance” as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Churchill by Poy: Cartoonist of a Vanished Age
17
Mar
2022
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
"Poy was not unlike a modern Aesop, who drew the simple truth with devastating clearness. Looking at any of his pictures you laugh because of their very rightness. It is only afterwards that you realise the brilliance of the drawing, and are staggered by the genius that created it.”
Churchill for Today: His Six Precepts for Confronting Terrorists (Part 2)
16
Mar
2022
By CHRISTOPHER C. HARMON
"Democracy, I say, is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respecting other people’s rights as well as their ambitions…. I trust the people, the mass of the people, in almost any country, but I like to make sure that it is the people and not a gang of bandits." —WSC
Churchill’s Novel “Savrola” (3): Statesmanship Ennobles Ambition
12
Mar
2022
Churchill in “Punch”: His Fanciful Hats Helped Fashion His Image
24
Feb
2022
Great Contemporaries, Clemenceau (3): How the Tiger Inspired Churchill
24
Feb
2022
By PAUL A. ALKON
Churchill saw in Clemenceau the importance of projecting the right mood in a crisis. He remembered the particular words Clemenceau had tried out to him, before exclaiming them in the French parliament: “I will fight in front of Paris; I will fight in Paris; I will fight behind Paris.” In 1940, Churchill adopted the Tiger’s trope: “Clemenceau was quite right. The only thing that mattered was to beat the Germans.
Churchill for Today: What He Thought and Said about Terrorism (Part 1)
22
Feb
2022
1
By CHRISTOPHER C. HARMON
Churchill: "What I mean by frightfulness is the inflicting of great slaughter or massacre upon a particular crowd of people, with the intention of terrorizing not merely the rest of the crowd, but the whole district or the whole country. We cannot admit this doctrine in any form. Frightfulness is not a remedy known to the British pharmacopoeia.”
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.”
The Atomic Bomb and the Special Relationship: Part 2
08
Feb
2022
The Atomic Bomb and the Special Relationship: Part 1
01
Feb
2022
Great Contemporaries: Paul Reynaud, Some Answers and a Question
25
Jan
2022
Religion and Politics: Churchill and the Theologico-Political Problem
17
Dec
2021