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Rhetoric: How Churchill Scaffolded His First Speech to Congress

19

Aug

2022

By RICHARD COHEN & RICHARD M. LANGWORTH

rhetoric

“The orator is the embodiment of the passions of the multitude. Before he can inspire them with any emotion he must be swayed by it himself. When he would rouse their indignation his heart is filled with anger. Before he can move their tears his own must flow. To convince them he must himself believe.” —WSC, “The Scaffolding of Rhetoric,”1897

Posted in: Churchill in WWII, Explore, The Literary Churchill,

Tags: Pearl Harbor, Richard Cohen, United States, Winston S. Churchill,

Witold Pilecki: A Deserving Addition to the Roles of Honor

23

Aug

2020

3

By RICHARD COHEN and RICHARD M. LANGWORTH

Pilecki

The main concern for Pilecki at Auschwitz was the fate of Poles, but in describing that of the Jews he asked a stark question: “Were we all people”?

Posted in: 2019, Books,

Tags: Allied War Declaration of 1942, Anne Frank, Auschwitz, Auschwitz Protocols, Bergen-Belsen, Bermuda Refugee Conference, Charles Portal, Esther Gilbert, Evian Conference, Franklin Roosevelt, Holocaust, Jack Fairweather, Jan Karski, Józef Garliński. Witold Pilecki, Kazimierz Sosnkowski, Martin Gilbert, Polish Underground, Pope Pius XII, Richard Cohen, Stefan Rowecki, Stephen Wise, Winston S. Churchill, Wladyslaw Sikorski, Yad Vashem,

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