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Hitler’s “Tet Offensive”: Churchill and the Austrian Anschluss, 1938
05
Nov
2020
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Breathless media admiration of Hitler’s Anschluss obscured German military deficiencies that might have mattered if the democracies had stood firm.
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“The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists.” Not WSC.
09
Jul
2020
5
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Churchill never said this: he was far too fastidious to apply such a term generically. He knew his fascists, and identified them more specifically.
Person of the 20th Century: Charles Krauthammer’s Appraisal
09
Jun
2019
By DR. CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
“Only Churchill carries that absolutely required criterion: indispensability,” wrote Dr. Krauthammer. “Without Churchill the world today would be unrecognizable.”
Was Churchill a White Supremacist?
07
May
2019
3
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
So deeply implanted is the belief that Churchill was a white supremacist that certain students and faculties accept it without demur.