Posted on 08/09/2024 10:54:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill Press Photographs, CHPH 1A/F2/8 A black and white photograph of Winston Church in 1924, wearing a three piece suit and bow tie, smoking a cigar, sitting on garden steps, looking at his young daughter Mary, Chartwell, KentChurchill Archives Centre, Churchill Press Photographs, CHPH 1A/F2/8
A little-known speech made by Winston Churchill in the run up to the Paris Olympics in 1924 has been uncovered in an archive. The statesman was supporting a 1923 fundraising campaign to enable British athletes to take part in the Games based on merit, not just on whether they could afford it.
The letter was unearthed in the Churchill Archive Centre, part of the University of Cambridge, which holds the World War Two prime minister's papers.
Director Allen Packwood said while most people know Churchill as "the wartime leader and a bigger man", he was a keen sportsman in his youth.
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Interesting, not least to see how Churchill’s speeches were typed as in blank verse.
How many people know that Winston Churchill by act of Congress was made an American Citizen?
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