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“Angel of Deliverance”: Churchill’s Tributes to Joan of Arc

Nov

2020

By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH

Despite his encomiums to Joan, Churchill rated Napoleon higher, with Georges Clemenceau a close third—and, a bit farther down, de Gaulle.

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Churchillisms: “Leave the Past to History” (which He will Write)

Oct

2016

By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT

Question: Malcolm MacDonald (son of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald) records in his book, "Titans and Others," a Churchill confrontation with then-Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in the House of Commons. “History will say the Rt. Hon. Gentleman is wrong in this matter,” Churchill says. “I know it will, for I shall write that history.” What was the date? Didn’t he say this frequently?

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