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Frederick Lindemann: Churchill’s Eminence Grise?
06
Sep
2017
8
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
A popular weekly half hour podcast, Revisionist History takes aim at shibboleths, real and imagined. This episode is Churchill’s turn in the barrel. The villain, aside from Sir Winston, is his scientific adviser, Frederick Lindemann, later Lord Cherwell, aka “The Prof.” You’ve probably never heard of him, says narrator Malcolm Gladwell. You should have. It was Lindemann who made Churchill bomb innocent German civilians and starve the Bengalis. Accompanied by background music, uplifting or ominous as required, Mr. Gladwell unfolds his case. He claims to have read six books on Lord Cherwell (whose title he mispronounces). But his only two quoted sources are the British scientist C.P. Snow (very selectively; Snow admired Churchill); and Madhusree Mukerjee, author of a widely criticized book on the Bengal Famine. There are no contrary opinions or evidence.
Great Contemporaries: Frederick Lindemann (“The Prof”)
17
Feb
2016
5
Where to Read about Professor Lindemann
06
May
2015
1
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Q: In reviewing the 1940-45 visitors books at Chequers, I was struck by how often Professor Frederick Lindemann was there—far more than anyone except Churchill family and staff, more than Bracken and Beaverbrook, let alone the Chiefs of Staff. Lindemann practically lived there and was present whenever Churchill was. What do you make of him and what's best to read on him?
Great Contemporaries: The Three Lives of Churchill’s Hitler Essays
03
Jan
2024
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Did Churchill ever admire Hitler? The question, ridiculous on its face, is frequently asked. Critics have long quoted selectively from Churchill to show he was “for Hitler before he was against him.” In fact, Churchill never deviated in his view of Hitler, who was himself so infuriated that he lodged a diplomatic protest against Churchill’s “personal attack.”
The Churchill Day Book for 1935
09
Nov
2023
By WILLIAM JOHN SHEPHERD
“Never must we despair, never must we give in, but...the policy of detachment or isolation, about which we have heard so much and which in many ways is so attractive, is no longer open. If we were to turn our backs upon Europe, thereby alienating every friend, we should by disinteresting ourselves in their fate invite them to disinterest themselves in ours.” —WSC, 2 May 1935
Conclusions of the 1943-44 Bengal Famine Commission
23
Oct
2023
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
“It has been for us a sad task to inquire into the course and causes of the Bengal famine. We have been haunted by a deep sense of tragedy. A million and a half of the poor of Bengal fell victim to circumstances for which they themselves were not responsible. Society, together. with its organs, failed to protect its weaker members. Indeed, there was a moral and social breakdown, as well as an administrative breakdown.” —Commission conclusion
The Churchill Day Book for 1928: Other Years Welcome
27
Jul
2023
“The Cambridge Companion to Winston Churchill”: a Review
06
Jul
2023
By ANDREW ROBERTS
Academics revel in pointing out their subjects’ feet of clay, but all too often pay too little attention to the marble in the rest of the statue. This is a relatively new phenomenon. The words that free peoples employ in their defence of the liberty to express contested ideas will largely be those of Sir Winston Churchill: the subject—but sadly not the hero—of this book.
Testimony to History: Churchill’s Chartwell Visitors Book
12
Jun
2023
By FRED GLUECKSTEIN
Using the digital Visitors Book, in the Chartwell Exhibition Room, we can view signatures and profiles of all the people who visited over forty of the most historic and challenging years of the 20th century. This great work of many hands provides viewers with a unique, highly specialized opportunity to learn more about the private lives of Winston and Clementine Churchill and their family.
Did Churchill Waffle in 1938?: The Tale of Hubert Ripka
08
Dec
2022
By Richard M. Langworth
“Every one of us leading politicians has to ask ourselves whether we have the right, whether we can in all conscience force our country into war….[But] Masaryk was right. Death is better than slavery. [If war does come] “we’ll smash them to smithereens so they don’t trouble us for a century or more.” —WSC to Hubert Ripka, 22 June 1938
The Atomic Bomb and the Special Relationship: Part 1
01
Feb
2022
Forster, Appeasement, and Fascism: What Churchill Really Believed
04
Apr
2021
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
The Forster Meeting: Churchill dealt easily with concepts and political ideas. If he had genuinely admired Fascism, he would have said so.