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Great Contemporaries: Lady Violet Bonham Carter (Part 2)
25
Mar
2021
By FRED GLUECKSTEIN
Lady Violet: “He had no doubts about his star. He felt that he had been preserved through many perils in order to fulfil its purpose.”
Paul Courtenay 1934-2020: No Better Definition of a Pro
13
Dec
2020
2
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Paul Courtenay was indispensable, a Churchill encyclopedia. But he'd never say "I told you so." Even if he HAD told us so.
New Views of the “Special Relationship” compiled by Dobson and Marsh
19
Feb
2020
By BRADLEY P. TOLPPANEN
A close Anglo-American partnership was a guiding principle in Churchill’s thinking about international relations. The creation of such a partnership was a central aspect of his long political career. While still a young backbench Member of Parliament, he said, “it ought to be the main end of English statecraft over a long period of years to cultivate good relations with the United States.” In 1918 he declared it his hope that the two countries would “act permanently together.”
Great Contemporaries: Jan Christian Smuts
01
Dec
2017
2
Feeding the Crocodile, Belgium, 1940: Was King Leopold Guilty?
13
Oct
2017
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Daniel Wybo requested this essay on King Leopold and Churchill’s remarks about the May 1940 Belgian surrender. Mr. Wybo’s interest is through his father, who fought in the battle to defend the canal at Ghent-Terneuzen. Taken prisoner by the Germans, the elder Wybo escaped and became part of the Belgian underground. “My father was always bitter about how our King was treated,” Mr. Wybo writes. “He was distressed by the great lies propagated about his actions.” Churchill, it will be seen, tried to correct the worst of those lies.
Nolan’s Dunkirk: “Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans”
07
Aug
2017
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Dunkirk, produced by Christopher Nolan, sets out to portray the 1940 rescue of the Allied armies from the clutches of Hitler’s Wehrmacht in terms of courage, heroism, survival, and a few examples of cowardice. In that he succeeds admirably. In terms of context—in conveying an understanding of what Dunkirk was about—he fails utterly.
Fake History Abounds in the film, “Viceroy’s House”
29
Apr
2017
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