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Churchill’s Youth
Churchill on South African Prison Camps, and Other Selective Quoting
"The civilized combatant is obliged, at peril of being classed a savage, to avoid unnecessary cruelty to his enemy. Unless there has been unnecessary cruelty, whatever the suffering, there can be no barbarity. If there has been unnecessary cruelty, all who are in any way responsible for it are infected with the taint of inhumanity." —Churchill, 1901.
“I shall be the one to save London”
“Dreams of the future are blurred but…London will be in danger and in the high position I shall occupy, it will fall to me to save the Capital and save the Empire.” —WSC, 1891
HMS Cromwell? On the Naming of Warships
The historian Geoffrey Best wrote that King George V prevented Churchill (as First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911-15) from naming battleships after Cromwell and Pitt. I knew about Cromwell, but why Pitt and which one?
Sir Richard Molyneux and Churchill’s Skin Graft
Q: After the Battle of Omdurman in 1898, Churchill provided skin from his left forearm to one Dick Molyneux. Do you know what happened to him?
Offices of the Lunacy Commissioners
A colleague writes of an amusing Churchill remark in Oldham (his then-constituency), dated 19 January 1903 in Richard Langworth’s quotation book, Churchill in His Own Words, page 113: "I have always cherished the hope that the removal of the War Office from the dilapidated rabbit warren which they occupy in a street whose very name is Pall Mall would inaugurate a new and brighter era of Administration."