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“Surely Churchill Said That?” The Expanding Lexicon of the Fake Quote

26
Aug
2021
By Carlos Benito Marìn
quote
Why invent a quote? Perhaps in the hope that “the specter of Winston will pause to embrace the willful quoter and smoke a cigar with him.”
Posted in: Personal Matters, The Literary Churchill, Truths and Heresies,
Tags: Bessie Braddock, Carlos Marin, F.E. Smith, George Bernard Shaw, gnomology, Mary SOames, Nancy Astor, Nigel Rees, Nobel Prize for Literature, Richard Langworth, W.C. Fields, Winston S. Churchill, Yale Book of Quotations,
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Buruma Ponders the Political Abductions of Winston Churchill

15
Jun
2021
By WARREN F. KIMBALL
Buruma
However much Churchill promoted a positive Anglo-American relationship, he did not create it. For Buruma to blame him for British nationalism is absurd.
Posted in: 2020, Books,
Tags: Boris Johnson, David Reynolds, Dean Acheson, Franklin Roosevelt, Horatio Nelson, Ian Buruma, Nigel Farage, Nigel Rees, Queen Elizabeth I, Richard M. Langworth, Warren F. Kimball, Winston S. Churchill,
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“The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists.” Not WSC.

09
Jul
2020
13
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
fascists
Churchill never said this: he was far too fastidious to apply such a term generically. He knew his fascists, and identified them more specifically.
Posted in: Q & A, Understanding Churchill,
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Communism, Fascism, fascists, Joseph Stalin, Nazism, Nigel Rees, Winston S. Churchill,
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