Posted on 01/22/2015 5:26:48 AM PST by Kaslin
Fifty years ago this Saturday, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill died at age 90.
Churchill is remembered for his multiple nonstop careers as a statesman, cabinet minister, politician, journalist, Nobel laureate historian, and combat veteran. He began his career serving the British military as a Victorian-era mounted lancer and ended it as custodian of Britain's nuclear deterrent.
But he is most renowned for an astounding five-year-tenure as Britain's wartime prime minister from May 10, 1940, to June 26, 1945, when he was voted out of office not long after the surrender of Nazi Germany.
Churchill took over the day Hitler invaded Western Europe. Within six weeks, an isolated Great Britain was left alone facing the Third Reich. What is now the European Union was then either under Nazi occupation, allied with Germany or ostensibly neutral while favoring Hitler.
The United States was not just neutral. It had no intention of entering another European war -- at least not until after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor a year and half later.
From August 1939 to June 1941, the Soviet Union was an accomplice of the Third Reich. Russian leader Josef Stalin was supplying Hitler with critical resources to help finish off Great Britain, the last obstacle in Germany's path of European domination.
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I think Cal Thomas said, “There has not been one like Churchill before or since.”
In my opinion, Churchill single handedly was responsible for the allies victory in WWll. With more than able assists from Roosevelt, Eisenhower and many others, But he alone stands as the giant.
The first thing President Cruz should do is respectfully ask for Great Britain to send Churchill’s bust back and display it in the Oval Office.
I think Cruz should do it as soon as he assumes the “Office Of President-elect.,” which he wll hold from the day of the election up until he is sworn into the “Office of President.”
I miss the days when we had real leaders and were proud of them.
I've visited Churchill's grave, and it's a pretty poor monument to a man who almost single-handedly saved the British Empire during some of its darkest days.
Let's just say it was NOT their finest hour ...
“You don’t make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.”
W. Churchill
Here in Germany, I often ask my neighbors that question and it is astonishing how many times I am told that Conrad Adenauer or even Mikhail Gorbachev was the greatest man of the 20th century. Rarely, almost never, do I hear the name, Winston Churchill.
Clearly, this is an instruction on the workings of the human mind. That which affects me is cosmic and that which does not affect me is trivial. I think that a man on the street survey would reveal and appalling lack of understanding of the history of that era which can be blamed on our educational establishment and on our media neither one of which esteems the virtues embodied in the figure of Winston Churchill. There is another reason why the left has moved away from Churchill:
After the end of World War II, the lone voice of Churchill cautioned the West that its former wartime ally, the Soviet Union, was creating an "Iron Curtain" and was as ruthless as Hitler's Germany had been. Again, he was branded a paranoid who unfairly demonized communists.
The Republican Senate should do it now. There’s got to be room for the Churchill bust in the senate chamber. Maybe it would remind the elected representatives of why they’re there.
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."
British MEP candidate Paul Weston was arrested last April for reciting these words of Britain's greatest prime minister. The charge was "suspicion of religious or racial harrassment." The world desperately needs another Churchill, but is more likely to get another Hitler.
For later.
At the risk of experiencing a moment of self-absorption...there were two deaths that I remember clearly occurring when I was 10: MacArthur and Churchill. I remember in both cases wondering why there was such a worldwide reaction, and such massive solemn ceremonies. It wasn’t until the death of Reagan that I understood why. MacArthur and Churchill together symbolized the victory in great conflict of the first half of the 20th century (the world wars), and the beginning of the great conflict of the second half, the Cold War. Reagan symbolized the victory in the Cold War, and the beginning of the great conflict we are in now, against radical Islam and its desire for hegemony in the world.
Who will become the Churchill and the MacArthur in the great conflict of today? They have yet to show themselves.
One of the greatest stories about Sir Winston had to do with his love of brandy, about a bottle of which he was rumored to have consumed every day during WWII. As to alcohol, he is rumored to have said, “I have taken far more from it than it has taken from me.”
I think President Cruz should also instruct his Secretary of State deliver a “Reset Button” to the Prime Minster of Britain.
Can't have a bust of this great man in obama's presence. It would remind obama of just how small he is.
Immediately behind Churchill, Ronald Reagan. Together, the two greatest political leaders of the twentieth century, and two of the greatest in world history.
I have been to Churchills’ grave, too. It is in a small churchyard, no parking area, very understated. I think he would have liked that and may have actually requested it. My dad fought in WW2 and I remember watching Churchill’s funeral, broadcast on American TV, with Dad. Reverence was the order of the day. I think the Man of the 20th Century was Churchill. I also think the Woman of the 20th Century was Margaret Thatcher. Both Brits. I WISH Britons and Americans would remember their (Churchill and Thatcher) resolve and find our spines again. We MUST turn back the tide that has been destroying both of our once great countries for 60 years.
Same here. Churchill was a great statesman.
Never forget, Churchill was half American.
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