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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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Anthony Eden,
David Lloyd George,
Douglas Haig,
Fred Glueckstein,
Gallipoli,
Gallipoli campaign,
John French,
Kenneth Clark,
Marthe Bibesco,
Philip Sassoon,
Philip Tilden,
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother,
Richard Tauber,
Robert Boothby,
Samuel Hoare,
Siegfried Sassoon,
Stanley Baldwin,
Winston S. Churchill,
Churchill and the Channel Tunnel
18
Mar
2020
1
By ANTOINE CAPET
Churchill was an early and steady supporter of a Channel Tunnel, which was first proposed in 1751. For most of his life he joined in lively and almost continuous discussion of “a fixed link with the Continent.” Indeed, during the 1924-1929 Conservative government, Churchill was seen as “the leading political advocate of a tunnel.”
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Arthur Balfour,
Austen Chamberlain,
Channel Tunnel Company,
Churchill Documents,
conscience vote,
David Lloyd George,
Douglas Haig,
Entente Cordiale,
European Coal and Steel Community,
Free Vote,
George Curzon,
H.H. Asquith,
Herbert Kitchener,
Herbert Morrison,
Jean Monnet,
Joseph Chamberlain,
Lord Randolph Churchill,
Maurice Hankey,
Operation Sea Lion,
Prince Louis of Battenberg,
Ramsay MacDonald,
Samuel Hoare,
Sir Henry Wilson,
Sir John Fisher,
Sir John French,
Stanley Baldwin,
W.H. Smith,
Winston S. Churchill,
Great Contemporaries: Alfred Duff Cooper
18
Aug
2019
By BRADLEY P. TOLPPANNEN
"I have forfeited a great deal. I have given up an office that I loved, work in which I was deeply interested, and a staff of which any man might be proud. I have given up associations in that work with my colleagues with whom I have maintained for many years the most harmonious relations, not only as colleagues but as friends. I have given up the privilege of serving as lieutenant to a leader whom I still regard with the deepest admiration and affection. I have ruined, perhaps, my political career. But that is a little matter; I have retained something which is to me of great value—I can still walk about the world with my head erect." - Duff Cooper, 1938
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Alfred Duff Cooper,
Appeasement,
Archibald Wavell,
Douglas Haig,
Harold Nicolson,
J.L. Garvin,
Lady Diana Cooper,
Leopold Amery,
Max Beaverbrook,
Max Reinhardt,
Munich Pact,
Neville Chamberlain,
Richard Law,
Robert Boothby,
Singapore,
Talleyrand,
The Other Club,
Violet Bonham Carter,
Walter Elliot,
Winston S. Churchill,