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50 fascinating facts about Sir Winston Churchill [January 30, 2015]
Express ^ | January 30, 2015 | Aaron Brown

Posted on 01/02/2016 12:55:31 AM PST by beaversmom

50 fascinating facts about Sir Winston Churchill

THIS MONTH marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Sir Winston Churchill -- Britain's greatest wartime leader.

PUBLISHED: 14:20, Fri, Jan 30, 2015

In celebration of this historical anniversary, Express.co.uk takes a chronological look back through his life in 50 facts.

1. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on Monday November 30th 1874 at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire to Tory politician, Lord Randolph Churchill and American-born beauty Jeanette Jerome.

2. Churchill's parents led a glamorous life in high society but were distant with their children and as a result, the future wartime leader was instead brought up by his nanny, Mrs Elizabeth Ann Everest. He and younger brother Jack were sent to boarding schools in Ascot and Brighton.

3. From an early age, Churchill was fiercely independent and rebellious – qualities which resulted in a poor academic record at school, for which he was punished.

4. Enrolled into Harrow School on Tuesday April 17th 1888, young Winston – who struggled with a stutter and a lateral lisp – was mocked for his red hair and was quickly given the cruel nickname "Copperknob".

5. After leaving Harrow in 1893 with average academic results, Churchill applied to attend the Royal Military College, in Sandhurst. But the future military commander struggled with the entrance exam – taking THREE attempts before eventually passing in 1893.

6. Churchill's military career was AGAIN delayed after his entry into Sandhurst had to be postponed because young Winston fell off a bridge near his aunt’s house into a tree during a particularly competitive game of 'chase' . He was laid up in bed for three months following the accident recovering from a ruptured kidney.

7. Between 1895 and 1900 Churchill sought to get himself transferred into as many dangerous military zones as possible – writing up his narrow escapes from the front line for papers including the Daily Graphic, and Daily Telegraph. By 1899, working as a correspondent for the Morning Post, Churchill negotiated a salary of £250 a month and all expenses paid – equal to more than £27,000 today – making him the highest-paid war correspondent of the day.

8. Winston Churchill took some 60 bottles of booze with him when he set out for the Boer War.

9. Churchill was made a prisoner of war during his time as a war reporter. He was captured after the armoured train he was travelling on in South Africa was stormed by Boer soldiers. The war correspondent threw himself to safety in a ditch by the side of the track after the train collided with a boulder on the track – placed over the rails for the ambush. Churchill was found hunkered down in the dirt by an armed Boer soldier. The future British PM reached for his pistol only to realise it was in the crippled train carriage. Defenceless, he then surrendered to the soldier who decided not to shoot. The Boer soldier turned out to be Louis Botha – the future first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa who would work with Churchill in later life to help South Africa become a British Dominion.

10. Churchill was marched to a prison camp in 1899, which he soon escaped by scaling a wall in the dead of night. Two fellow prisoners had planned to escape with the young servicemen but turned back. Churchill marched and stole rides on goods trains to travel some 300 miles from the prison to Lourenço Marques, the capital of Mozambique. Churchill was forced to hide in a mine shaft for three days during his great escape.

11. After returning as a young war hero and publishing his tales from the battlefields, Churchill contested the Oldham constituency seat – which he had lost a year earlier – and won. This was just months before his 26th birthday.

12. Successfully winning the seat for the Conservative party – Churchill then embarked on a speaking tour through Britain and north America which helped him raise £10,000 for himself (equivalent to some £1,073,195 today).

13. Jeremy Paxman once branded British war hero Winston Churchill "a ruthless egotist, a chancer and a charlatan".

14. For two years – between 1903 and 1905 – young Winston wrote an ambitious two-volume biography of his own father. The book received a huge amount of critical acclaim at the time. Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States who knew Lord Randolph Churchill, branded the biography "a clever, tactful and rather cheap and vulgar life of that clever, tactful and rather cheap and vulgar egotist".

15. Churchill's political career lasted over 60 years – from winning his first seat with a meagre majority in 1900 to an elder Member of Parliament until June 1964.

16. Winston was a supporter of eugenics – the practice of improving the overall genetic quality of mankind – and while helping create the Mental Deficiency Act 1913, he drafted in that the feeble-minded should be sterilised instead of confined in institutions. This was changed before the Act was eventually passed into law.

17. As a young politician, Churchill was staunchly against votes for women.

18. Churchill's reputation in Wales and in Labour circles suffered a blow in 1910 when coal miners in Rhondda Valley kickstarted the Tonypandy Riot. The Chief Constable of Glamorgan requested troops be sent to help police quell the violent riots. But Churchill only allowed the reinforcements to travel as far as Swindon and Cardiff – before blocking their deployment.

19. In January 1911, then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill visited the police siege of two politically-motivated burglars on Sidney Street in East London. Two hundred police officers were in place at the cordoned off street by the time Churchill arrived, some six hours into the siege. The two burglers were holed up inside a house which caught fire later in the day. Churchill stopped the fire brigade from dousing the flames – so that the men inside were burned to death. "I thought it better to let the house burn down rather than spend good British lives in rescuing those ferocious rascals," he later explained.

20. Churchill was personally involved in the development of the tank – which was first used in battle by the British army on September 15 1916.21. By October 1911, Churchill, aged 37, was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty – a post under which he would continue to serve into the First World War. In this role, he would use his influence to put a greater emphasis on using aeroplanes in military combat. He was fascinated by aerial combat and even started taking flying lessons himself. He never gained his pilot's licence after he was hurt in an aeroplane crash at Croydon aerodrome – and his wife urged him to give up the hobby.

21. By October 1911, Churchill, aged 37, was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty – a post under which he would continue to serve into the First World War. In this role, he would use his influence to put a greater emphasis on using aeroplanes in military combat. He was fascinated by aerial combat and even started taking flying lessons himself. He never gained his pilot's licence after he was hurt in an aeroplane crash at Croydon aerodrome – and his wife urged him to give up the hobby.

22. Winston Churchill once defined tact as “the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”

23. One of the first times OMG was used was in a letter to Churchill –  Admiral John Arbuthnot "Jacky" Fisher penned the correspondence in 1917. Writing: "O.M.G (Oh! My! God!)-- Shower it on the Admiralty!"

24. Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan’s daughter all claimed to have witnessed Abraham Lincoln’s ghost walking the corridors of the White House.

25. Never one for mincing his words, Churchill said Bolshevism must be "strangled in its cradle".

26. The disastrous Gallipoli landings on the Dardanelles during the First World War was the brainchild of Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty. The failed naval operation left some 34,000 British soldiers dead – while another 78,500 were wounded and a further 7,500 were captured or left missing.

27. The failure in Gallipoli would haunt Churchill for the rest of his life. Many Second World War historians believe his determination to avoid invading France until he was assured he had a strong chance of success. An emotional Churchill confided to General Marshall in 1943, "I see the sea full of corpses".

28. Sir Winston Churchill proposed to three different women during his twenties – all of whom refused. He did however remain friends with all three women.

29. Churchill married Clementine Ogilvy Hozier less than a month after the pair announced their engagement. The ceremony took place in St Margaret’s Church in Westminster, London on Tuesday 11 August 1908. Together the couple would have five children together – Diana, Randolph, Sarah Tuchet-Jesson, Marigold and Mary Soames.

30. Throughout their 57 years of marriage, the bond between the Churchills remained strong. The couple would often send one another affectionate letters during long periods of absence – sometimes decorated with handdrawn illustrations. The pair also had pet names – she was his "Kat" and he was her "Pug".

31. Churchill was a prolific painter and produced almost 600 works of art during his lifetime. Sarah Thomas, of Sotheby's told the BBC the wartime Prime Minister took up painting very late as he "found relief from all the pressures of his work in his painting".

32. Lady Randolph Churchill hated her son's habit of smoking cigars – and despised seeing him waking in public with one in his mouth. When he was 15, she had tried to force a young Churchill to give up the habit. In a letter to her son, she pleaded: "If you knew how foolish and how silly you look doing it you would give it up, at least for a few years." She once promised to buy him a gun and a pony if he managed to give up smoking for six months. He agreed, stopped smoking and then promptly restarted six months later after winning the wager.

33. Churchill was so notorious for his smoking, he has a cuban cigar named in his honour. The Churchill is approximately 7inches long and 19mm wide.

34. 1922, Churchill found himself out of Parliament for the first time in twenty-two years. After losing his seat in the General Election, he retired and moved to the South of France to take up writing. 

35. Just two years after his 'retirement' Sir Winston Churchill returned to politics – and was named Chancellor of the Exchequer.

36. At the outbreak of the Second World War on September 3 1939, Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty and a member of the War Cabinet – when the Board of the Admiralty were informed they immediately sent a signal to the Fleet simply stating: "Winston is back."

37. Churchill became Prime Minister of a national government on 10 May 1940 – the same day Hitler invaded France and the Low Countries. He was 65-years-old when he took office.

38. It is said that Winston Churchill was the only person whom Field Marshal Montgomery would allow to smoke in his presence.

39. The summer of 1940 was labelled by Sir Winston Churchill as Britain’s "finest hour" – despite many believing at the time that victory against the advancing Nazi army would be impossible.

40. Churchill's first speech to parliament as Prime Minister was the famous "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat" address. One historian said the House of Commons, which had ignored and mocked Churchill during the 1930s was "now listening, and cheering".

41. Sir Winston Churchill was an incredibly emotional man. He would often breakdown into sobs during meeting when he was given bad news and in many of his broadcast speeches he can be heard holding back tears.

42. Prime Minister Churchill visited the White House just before Christmas in 1941. The secretive 24-day visit made quite an impact on staff – who had to adjust to the 67-year-olds eccentricities. Chief Usher J.B. West recalled, "We got used to his 'jumpsuit,' the extraordinary one-piece uniform he wore every day, but the servants never quite got over seeing him naked in his room when they'd go up to serve brandy. It was the jumpsuit or nothing. In his room, Mr. Churchill wore no clothes at all most of the time during the day."

43. Physician Lord Charles Moran revealed in his book that Churchill suffered from clinical depression throughout his life. Churchill called it his "Black Dog".

44. After it was announced that the Second World War was over, Churchill shouted to a huge crowd gathered in Whitehall: "This is your victory." to which the mass of people shouted back: "No, it is yours". Sir Winston Churchill then conducted them in the singing of "Land of Hope and Glory".

45. Churchill was a fan of a drink, in particular Champagne. He said of it: "I could not live without Champagne. In victory I deserve it. In defeat I need it."

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46. As soon as the war ended, Churchill began to plan for another attack. Branded Operation Unthinkable – the plan was ordered by Churchill and developed by the British Armed Forces. They predicted the Third World War could begin on July 1st 1945 with a sudden attack against the allied Soviet troops. However, the plan was quickly rejected by the British Chiefs of Staff Committee for being militarily unfeasible.

47. An American writer visiting London at the time Churchill was named Prime Minister, wrote: "Everywhere I went in London people admired [Churchill's] energy, his courage, his singleness of purpose. People said they didn't know what Britain would do without him. He was obviously respected. But no one felt he would be Prime Minister after the war. He was simply the right man in the right job at the right time." Churchill was indeed defeated in the 1945 election.

48. But after the general election of October 1951, Churchill again became Prime Minister. But the war time hero was dogged by bad health. He had already suffered a mild stroke while on holiday in the south of France in the summer of 1949. then in June 1953, when he was 78, he suffered a severe stroke at Number 10. The news of the stroke was hidden from the public and from Parliament – who were told Churchill was simply suffering from exhaustion.

49. In 1963, US President John F. Kennedy – acting under authorisation granted by an Act of Congress – proclaimed Sir Winston Churchill an Honorary Citizen of the United States. Churchill and Mother Teresa are the only people to have been made honorary US citizens during their lifetimes. Sadly, due to his deteriorating health – Churchill was unable to attend the White House ceremony in his honour.

50. Elizabeth II offered to create Churchill Duke of London, but he declined. After his death, she decreed that Churchill's body be laid in state in Westminster Hall for three days – a privilege normally only reserved for members of the Royal family. Churchill was then granted a state funeral – one of the biggest in the history of Britain. In total, 112 countries were represented inside St Paul's – with only China refusing to send an envoy. Across the globe, more than 350million people watched the ceremony on television – including 25million in Britain. The US audience for the British Second World War politician was larger than that for President Kennedy’s funeral, broadcast some 15 months earlier. After the ceremonies, Churchill was buried in the family plot at St Martin's Church, Bladon, Oxfordshire next to his mother and his father.


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1 posted on 01/02/2016 12:55:32 AM PST by beaversmom
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Whichever who occupies the Oval Office in 2017 should immediately request Churchill’s bust be returned.


2 posted on 01/02/2016 2:30:36 AM PST by Thumper1960 (Cruz/Palin2016)
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And remove the portrait of Obama.


3 posted on 01/02/2016 2:38:06 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: beaversmom
Also of note: BUSTED!

Barack Obama's White House has been forced to admit that it did return a bust of Sir Winston Churchill to British diplomats, after describing such claims as "100 per cent false".

4 posted on 01/02/2016 2:43:50 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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BURN Brak’s official portrait in a pile of manure placed dead center of Moo’s propaganda garden.


5 posted on 01/02/2016 3:33:43 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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No offence meant, but I must post a correction.

BURN Brak’s official portrait in a pile of PIG manure placed dead center of Moo’s propaganda garden.


6 posted on 01/02/2016 4:20:29 AM PST by Tupelo (Honest men go to Washington, but honest men do not stay in Washington.)
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To: beaversmom

Very interesting. Thanks for posting!

One of my favorite Churchill quotes:

“I like pigs.
Dogs look up to us.
Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.”

LOL


7 posted on 01/02/2016 4:43:02 AM PST by patriot08 (4th geneneration Texan (girl type))
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Lol.

I look at Winston and feel like I know him. What a great man for the time. They don’t make humans like him everyday.


8 posted on 01/02/2016 4:45:58 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

In my opinion, World War ll produced two of the great leaders.
Roosevelt was the greatest wartime leader this nation has had since George Washington.
Churchill may have been the greatest world leader ever.


9 posted on 01/02/2016 5:00:07 AM PST by Tupelo (Honest men go to Washington, but honest men do not stay in Washington.)
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Chartwell booksellers in NYC is the only book store dedicated to Churchill; they have an interesting website.


10 posted on 01/02/2016 5:03:25 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: beaversmom

Thanks for posting!

In reading his history of WWII, I was impressed that one could read from the source, something that is rare these days.


11 posted on 01/02/2016 5:08:06 AM PST by Loud Mime (Honor the Commandments because they're not suggestions; stop gambling on forgiveness.)
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Roosevelt had the good sense to pretty much listen to his generals.


12 posted on 01/02/2016 5:21:09 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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He would have inherited Blenheim Palace and the title except for a late in life child by the current titled dude.

You can see Blenheim Place if you watch the show The Royals as it serves as the Palace for the King. These days it costs over 100,000 pounds just for the heating and cooling.


13 posted on 01/02/2016 5:37:34 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: Loud Mime
In reading his history of WWII, I was impressed that one could read from the source, something that is rare these days.

It really is remarkable that he was able to write on so many subjects of which he had personal knowledge. I confess to being late in appreciating his writing, but I do enjoy it now.

Mr. niteowl77

14 posted on 01/02/2016 5:49:38 AM PST by niteowl77
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To: beaversmom
Just some observations of my own.

About Point# 26 - the disastrous Gallipoli landings on the Dardanelles - there is some dispute as to how much of the blame to apportion to Churchill, and how much to pin on bad communications and/or the initiative of the naval command (see Manchester's The Last Lion).

About Point# 31 - Churchill was also an accomplished bricklayer, who worked on the construction of a number of buildings on his estate. It was later that he took up painting. In both endeavors he was respected by his peers - other bricklayers claimed he was professionally competent, and his artwork was praised by critics.

If you have the time to read the several volumes of The Last Lion, I highly recommend them. Manchester clearly loved Churchill, and pens an appealing and sympathetic biography (in contrast to his work about Gen. MacArthur [American Caesar]). They are a fast read, and Churchill is a fascinating character. He was personally fearless in battle, and during WWI he would scare the wits out of his fellow trenchmen when he would head out to reconoiter the German positions. And while he was a relentless, 'give-no-quarter' warrior (see Point# 19), upon victory he would immediately switch around to help his former adversary. Really fascinating guy. He wrote an enormous body of work, which is how he mostly funded his lifestyle. Loved his whiskey and cigars, and had a monumental ego which he did his best to live up to.
15 posted on 01/02/2016 6:08:46 AM PST by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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Not his finest hour: The dark side of Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill is rightly remembered for leading Britain through her finest hour – but what if he also led the country through her most shameful hour? What if, in addition to rousing a nation to save the world from the Nazis, he fought for a raw white supremacism and a concentration camp network of his own? This question burns through Richard Toye’s new history, Churchill’s Empire, and is even seeping into the Oval Office.

George W Bush left a bust of Churchill near his desk in the White House, in an attempt to associate himself with the war leader’s heroic stand against fascism. Barack Obama had it returned to Britain. It’s not hard to guess why: his Kenyan grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was imprisoned without trial for two years and was tortured on Churchill’s watch, for resisting Churchill’s empire.

Can these clashing Churchills be reconciled? Do we live, at the same time, in the world he helped to save, and the world he helped to trash? Toye, one of Britain’s smartest young historians, has tried to pick through these questions dispassionately – and he should lead us, at last and at least, to a more mature conversation about our greatest national icon.

Churchill was born in 1874 into a Britain that was washing the map pink, at the cost of washing distant nations blood red. Victoria had just been crowned Empress of India, and the scramble for Africa was only a few years away. At Harrow School and then Sandhurst, he was told a simple story: the superior white man was conquering the primitive, dark-skinned natives, and bringing them the benefits of civilisation. As soon as he could, Churchill charged off to take his part in “a lot of jolly little wars against barbarous peoples”. In the Swat valley, now part of Pakistan, he experienced, fleetingly, a crack of doubt. He realised that the local population was fighting back because of “the presence of British troops in lands the local people considered their own,” just as Britain would if she were invaded. But Churchill soon suppressed this thought, deciding instead they were merely deranged jihadists whose violence was explained by a “strong aboriginal propensity to kill”.

He gladly took part in raids that laid waste to whole valleys, destroying houses and burning crops. He then sped off to help reconquer the Sudan, where he bragged that he personally shot at least three “savages”.

The young Churchill charged through imperial atrocities, defending each in turn. When concentration camps were built in South Africa, for white Boers, he said they produced “the minimum of suffering”. The death toll was almost 28,000, and when at least 115,000 black Africans were likewise swept into British camps, where 14,000 died, he wrote only of his “irritation that Kaffirs should be allowed to fire on white men”. Later, he boasted of his experiences there: “That was before war degenerated. It was great fun galloping about.”

Then as an MP he demanded a rolling programme of more conquests, based on his belief that “the Aryan stock is bound to triumph”. There seems to have been an odd cognitive dissonance in his view of the “natives”. In some of his private correspondence, he appears to really believe they are helpless children who will “willingly, naturally, gratefully include themselves within the golden circle of an ancient crown”.

But when they defied this script, Churchill demanded they be crushed with extreme force. As Colonial Secretary in the 1920s, he unleashed the notorious Black and Tan thugs on Ireland’s Catholic civilians, and when the Kurds rebelled against British rule, he said: “I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes...[It] would spread a lively terror.”

Of course, it’s easy to dismiss any criticism of these actions as anachronistic. Didn’t everybody think that way then? One of the most striking findings of Toye’s research is that they really didn’t: even at the time, Churchill was seen as at the most brutal and brutish end of the British imperialist spectrum. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was warned by Cabinet colleagues not to appoint him because his views were so antedeluvian. Even his startled doctor, Lord Moran, said of other races: “Winston thinks only of the colour of their skin.”

Many of his colleagues thought Churchill was driven by a deep loathing of democracy for anyone other than the British and a tiny clique of supposedly superior races. This was clearest in his attitude to India. When Mahatma Gandhi launched his campaign of peaceful resistance, Churchill raged that he “ought to be lain bound hand and foot at the gates of Delhi, and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy seated on its back.” As the resistance swelled, he announced: “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.” This hatred killed. To give just one, major, example, in 1943 a famine broke out in Bengal, caused – as the Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has proved – by the imperial policies of the British. Up to 3 million people starved to death while British officials begged Churchill to direct food supplies to the region. He bluntly refused. He raged that it was their own fault for “breeding like rabbits”. At other times, he said the plague was “merrily” culling the population.

Skeletal, half-dead people were streaming into the cities and dying on the streets, but Churchill – to the astonishment of his staff – had only jeers for them. This rather undermines the claims that Churchill’s imperialism was motivated only by an altruistic desire to elevate the putatively lower races.

Hussein Onyango Obama is unusual among Churchill’s victims only in one respect: his story has been rescued from the slipstream of history, because his grandson ended up as President of the US. Churchill believed that Kenya’s fertile highlands should be the preserve of the white settlers, and approved the clearing out of the local “blackamoors”. He saw the local Kikuyu as “brutish children”. When they rebelled under Churchill’s post-war premiership, some 150,000 of them were forced at gunpoint into detention camps – later dubbed “Britain’s gulag” by Pulitzer-prize winning historian, Professor Caroline Elkins. She studied the detention camps for five years for her remarkable book Britain’s Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya, explains the tactics adopted under Churchill to crush the local drive for independence. “Electric shock was widely used, as well as cigarettes and fire,” she writes. “The screening teams whipped, shot, burned, and mutilated Mau Mau suspects.” Hussein Onyango Obama never truly recovered from the torture he endured.

Many of the wounds Churchill inflicted have still not healed: you can find them on the front pages any day of the week. He is the man who invented Iraq, locking together three conflicting peoples behind arbitrary borders that have been bleeding ever since. He is the Colonial Secretary who offered the Over-Promised Land to both the Jews and the Arabs – although he seems to have privately felt racist contempt for both. He jeered at the Palestinians as “barbaric hoards who ate little but camel dung,” while he was appalled that the Israelis “take it for granted that the local population will be cleared out to suit their convenience”.

True, occasionally Churchill did become queasy about some of the most extreme acts of the Empire. He fretted at the slaughter of women and children, and cavilled at the Amritsar massacre of 1919. Toye tries to present these doubts as evidence of moderation – yet they almost never seem to have led Churchill to change his actions. If you are determined to rule people by force against their will, you can hardly be surprised when atrocities occur. Rule Britannia would inexorably produce a Cruel Britannia.

So how can the two be reconciled? Was Churchill’s moral opposition to Nazism a charade, masking the fact he was merely trying to defend the British Empire from a rival?

The US civil rights leader Richard B. Moore, quoted by Toye, said it was “a rare and fortunate coincidence” that at that moment “the vital interests of the British Empire [coincided] with those of the great overwhelming majority of mankind”. But this might be too soft in its praise. If Churchill had only been interested in saving the Empire, he could probably have cut a deal with Hitler. No: he had a deeper repugnance for Nazism than that. He may have been a thug, but he knew a greater thug when he saw one – and we may owe our freedom today to this wrinkle in history.

This, in turn, led to the great irony of Churchill’s life. In resisting the Nazis, he produced some of the richest prose-poetry in defence of freedom and democracy ever written. It was a cheque he didn’t want black or Asian people to cash – but they refused to accept that the Bank of Justice was empty. As the Ghanaian nationalist Kwame Nkrumah wrote: “All the fair, brave words spoken about freedom that had been broadcast to the four corners of the earth took seed and grew where they had not been intended.” Churchill lived to see democrats across Britain’s dominions and colonies – from nationalist leader Aung San in Burma to Jawarlal Nehru in India – use his own intoxicating words against him.

Ultimately, the words of the great and glorious Churchill who resisted dictatorship overwhelmed the works of the cruel and cramped Churchill who tried to impose it on the darker-skinned peoples of the world. The fact that we now live in a world where a free and independent India is a superpower eclipsing Britain, and a grandson of the Kikuyu “savages” is the most powerful man in the world, is a repudiation of Churchill at his ugliest – and a sweet, ironic victory for Churchill at his best.


16 posted on 01/02/2016 6:09:21 AM PST by Republic_Venom (It's time for some Republic Venom!)
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To: beaversmom

I highly recommend Manchester’s 2 volume biography.


17 posted on 01/02/2016 6:19:29 AM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: beaversmom

Just not quite good enough for the Oval Office. Maybe its the other way around, the current Oval Office is not good enough for Churchill.


18 posted on 01/02/2016 6:25:59 AM PST by armydawg505
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One could do a whole thread just on Churchill's witty and often funny quotes.

Quite a man.


'They don’t make humans like him everyday.'

As The Donald said the other day, (something like); 'Where are all the great American leaders today? Where are all the great generals like MacArthur, Patton..'

Answer:

OBAMA 'GUTTING MILITARY' BY PURGING GENERALS Intended to send message 'down through the ranks'

..It is part of Obama’s strategy to reduce U.S. standing worldwide.

“Obama is intentionally weakening and gutting our military, Pentagon and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/obama-gutting-military-by-purging-generals/#elevphzqZekPFph6.99

And in the meantime, he's colonizing America with thousands upon thousands of Muslim 'refugees' (jihadists)

God help us all. Is there no one who can stop this insanity?




19 posted on 01/02/2016 6:29:38 AM PST by patriot08 (4th geneneration Texan (girl type))
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To: ConorMacNessa

Churchill Ping


20 posted on 01/02/2016 6:52:27 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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