Maybe WJB wasn’t the bellicose blow hard that they made him out to be in that movie. Sounds like he wasn’t such a bad guy, and a democrat too.
“Maybe WJB wasn’t the bellicose blow hard that they made him out to be in that movie.”
The movie was a theatrical fiction — good drama, but totally unhistorical.
The real WJB was calm throughout; he also said that if Darwinist views were accepted, then in twenty years nations would be executing people on a darwinian basis. (He was off by about ten years — Hitler came sooner than that.)
You are correct.