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Great Contemporaries: Anthony Eden (Part 3), 1939-1977
04
Aug
2022
By FRED GLUECKSTEIN
As war approached, Eden and Churchill developed an increasingly close friendship. Churchill Eden “was a devoted adherent of the French Entente…he was anxious to have more intimate relations with Soviet Russia. He felt and feared the Hitler peril. It might almost be said that there was not much difference of view between him and me, except, of course that he was in harness.”
Great Contemporaries: Anthony Eden (Part 2), 1934-1938
21
Jul
2022
By FRED GLUECKSTEIN
“From midnight till dawn I lay in my bed consumed by emotions of sorrow and fear. There seemed one strong young figure standing up against long, dismal, drawling tides of drift and surrender, of wrong measurements and feeble impulses…. Now he was gone. I watched the daylight slowly creep in through the windows, and saw before me in mental gaze the vision of Death.” —WSC
Great Contemporaries: Anthony Eden (Part 1), 1897-1934
18
Mar
2022
By FRED GLUECKSTEIN
Anthony Eden shared Free Trade principles, but was at first a Churchill critic. During the Dardanelles Campaign he wrote: “Why can’t W. Churchill look [Navy ships] instead of making strategical plans about which he knows nothing about at all?” Later they became allies, Eden remarking on Churchill’s “masterly performance” as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Churchill, Eden, America and the Suez Crisis of 1956
23
May
2021
By ANDREW ROBERTS
If any one event ended imperial Britain, it was Suez, which also saw last significant intervention by Winston Churchill in world affairs.
David Charlwood, “Churchill and Eden: Partners Through War and Peace”
31
Mar
2021
By WILLIAM JOHN SHEPHERD
Eden by Charlwood: “The morning had been golden; the noontime was bronze; and the evening lead. But all were solid, and each was polished until it shone after its fashion.”
“Grand Improvisation”: Derek Leebaert on the “Special Relationship”
19
Aug
2020
By WILLIAM J. SHEPHERD
During the war Churchill told a general: “Improvise and dare…He improvise and dore.” Leebaert sees America’s walk to global leadership in much the same way.
Great Contemporaries: Philip Sassoon – A Friend at the End of an Era
01
Aug
2020
By FRED GLUECKSTEIN
Throwback to vanished age, Sassoon served his country in war and peace, and entertained the glitterati at his palatial mansions. He died too young.
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Churchill and the Presidents: Dwight Eisenhower, Sentiment and Politics
23
Jul
2020
1
By WARREN F. KIMBALL
In wartime, Eisenhower related to Churchill as junior to senior. As President, the relationship vastly changed, but ties of sentiment were still there.
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“Never Flinch”…the last of The Churchill Documents brings the saga full circle
23
Jul
2020
1
By KLAUS LARRES
Never Flinch, Never Weary chronicles a time when mankind stood “uncertainly poised between world catastrophe and a golden age.”
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How Winston Churchill Spent Christmas, Part 1: Halcyon Days
16
Dec
2019
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Christmas at Chartwell: “No matter how humble the gift, he accepted with surprise and pleasure. ‘For me?’ he'd ask, his eyes lighting up. ‘How very kind!’”
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Abstracts: Historians Survey Sir Winston’s Health in Old Age
06
Jun
2019
By ANTOINE CAPET
Medical historians find no evidence that Churchill suffered from major depression, but his health was subject to many ailments in his final decade.
Editions Le Sphinx: A Fine Illustrated Edition of Churchill’s War Memoirs
21
Mar
2019
1
By ANTOINE CAPET
Sphinx editors in Brussels were steeped in the war as Churchill described it. Their volumes offer a splendid collection of wartime photographs.