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Churchill Confronts “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp”
28
Sep
2023
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By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Churchill fought the Second World War with single-minded intensity; thus, his reaction to the Colonel Blimp film. Any distraction from the war effort was inadmissible, even treasonous. His notorious outburst, “I hate Indians...beastly people with a beastly religion” was in reaction to Delhi separatists when India was under invasion. Alas today it is treated as an offense of genocidal magnitude.
David Low: The Cartoonist Churchill Loved—Despite Everything
22
Feb
2020
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By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
“Low is the greatest of our modern cartoonists,” wrote Winston Churchill in his delightful essay “Cartoons and Cartoonists.” He praised “the vividness of his political conceptions,” and declared Low a singular artist: “He possesses what few cartoonists have—a grand technique of draughtsmanship. Low is a master of black and white. He is the Charlie Chaplin of caricature, and tragedy and comedy are the same to him.”