On 20 October 2009, at a London dinner honoring Leader of the Opposition David Cameron MP, The Churchill Centre will be displaying Sir Winston Churchill’s famous gold Breguet pocket watch. WSC preferred radio to television and, not surprisingly, pocket watches to wristwatches. He called his Breguet “The Turnip.” There are several amusing references to it [...]
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Churchill and the Holocaust
June 22, 2009In the January issue of Commentary, Hillel Halkin penned an interesting piece, “The Jewish State & Its Arabs,” which resulted in a flurry of reader comment on the Commentary website. One reader had the impression that Churchill “overreacted” to the 1944 assassination of Lord Moyne by members of the Jewish Lehi (Stern Gang). Another wrote [...]